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	October 6, 2008 Proposed Coal Plant Switches Fuels, Stirs Controversy When Wolverine Power proposed building a large coal plant near Rogers City, the company called their proposal the Wolverine Clean Energy Venture. The proposal ...more
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	September 10, 2008 McKibben: To Spread the Word, Push a Number Bill McKibben, a foremost expert on climate change, urged more than 700 people at a rally in Traverse City to join his campaign to pressure international ...more
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	August 18, 2008 Sacramento’s Lesson: Green Power Works Twenty years ago, Sacramento had just a single source of electricity—a pricey, balky nuclear power plant owned by its municipal utility. Today, however, ...more
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	July 30, 2008 Different Shade of Green Stalls State Energy Reform More than a year after Governor Granholm endorsed requirements that utilities sell more renewable energy, efforts to green up Michigan’s power ...more
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	July 28, 2008 Rep. Law: Let’s Turn Green to Gold State Representative Kathleen Law was once part of a research team that produced gamma rays while searching for new ways to generate electricity. Today she is ...more
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	June 13, 2008 States Mandating Clean Energy Cash In on Green Economy One noticeable feature on Newton, Iowa’s Web site is a map of the cemetery. Until recently, it seemed a fitting metaphor for the town, which was bleeding ...more
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	June 3, 2008 Why Michigan Leads America’s Coal Rush Clean-energy innovation is the greatest economic opportunity to come Michigan's way since the invention of the Model T assembly line. So why have energy ...more
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	May 22, 2008 House Green Energy Package Raises Questions Responding to environmentalists, entrepreneurs, and the governor, the Michigan House passed several bills last month meant to accelerate the state’s ...more
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	May 6, 2008 Michigan at Center of National Coal War The growing opposition to building as many as eight new coal-burning power plants in Michigan is part of a national campaign challenging the use of an 18th- ...more
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	March 31, 2008 Coal’s Soaring Costs: Wind Power’s Friendly Breeze The broad, snow-covered ridges south of McBain are just months away from sporting a couple new, permanent fixtures—a pair of 350-foot-tall wind turbines. ...more
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	March 23, 2008 As Lansing Lags, a Rural School Looks Ahead Gary Waterson, a northern Michigan science teacher, knows that the renewable energy industry is growing so fast that companies can't find enough skilled labor. ...more
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	March 11, 2008 Grand Rapids Tells Lansing: Yes We Can Michigan's own Henry Ford generated amazing wealth innovating and mass marketing the automobile. But his fortune was an anthill compared to the mountain of ...more
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	February 29, 2008 As Coal’s Cost Soars, Lansing Warms to Clean Energy Last September, Consumers Energy handed the state a study to justify construction of a big coal-fired power plant near Bay City. But the study is having the ...more
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	January 31, 2008 Granholm Touts Clean-Energy Jobs Governor Granholm presented a high-minded vision for the future of the energy industry in her 2008 State of the State Address Tuesday night, and urged the ...more
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	December 31, 2007 Udall: A Letter to My Grandchildren, Pt 3 The challenges that your generation faces will test your ingenuity and generosity. Whether you are a person of faith who believes the Earth is the ...more
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	December 28, 2007 Udall: A Letter to My Grandchildren, Pt 2 Ordinarily, a backward look at history is a detour into unproductive nostalgia. I am acutely aware of the profound differences between today’s culture ...more
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	December 24, 2007 Udall: A Letter to My Grandchildren, Pt 1 This is the most important letter I will ever write. It concerns your future—and the tomorrows of the innumerable human beings who share this vulnerable, ...more
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	September 19, 2007 Mining Company Lobbied Hard in U.P., Lansing As a big mining company’s push for permission to dig a sulfide mine beneath an Upper Peninsula trout stream heads for hearings in Lansing today, ...more
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	September 14, 2007 Will State Allow Sulfide Mining Under U.P. River? When a mining company proposed digging a sulfide mine directly underneath an Upper Peninsula river, Michigan had no rules for regulating mining of that toxic ...more
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	September 6, 2007 Wind Shift With 3,100 miles of breezy Great Lakes shoreline, dozens of manufacturing plants capable of turning out turbines, blades, and gears, and a long tradition of ...more
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	August 10, 2007 Michigan’s “Energy Epicenter” Turning Black, Not Green Governor Granholm’s efforts to make Michigan the “alternative energy epicenter of America” is making progress, but not nearly enough to keep ...more
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	July 25, 2007 Report: Saugatuck Dunes Sale Could Trigger Land Rush Last year’s sale of an expanse of globally rare, undeveloped Lake Michigan beach and dunes at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River signals a possibly ...more
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	July 23, 2007 Presque Isle Officials Approve Mystery Coal Plant A year after two local governments granted broad zoning approvals to build a coal-fired electrical generating plant at the edge of the once-thriving Great ...more
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	July 18, 2007 Jumbo Investments Revitalize Grand Rapids This city’s elite business leaders and financiers, an unusually collaborative group of immensely wealthy families, have spent a decade combining their ...more
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	July 5, 2007 Big Grayling Park Would Need Big Tax Dollars The huge amusement park that developers want to build on 1,800 acres of public land near Grayling will require changing state forest boundaries, securing deeds ...more
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