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Groups Renew Push to Stop Bay City Coal Plant When Consumers Energy received state permission to build a coal-fired power plant near Bay City, it marked a significant victory for the ...more
 February 22, 2010 Our New Big Three Bringing wind power to Michigan can help our environment and economy. Although European manufacturers are currently profiting handsomely ...more
Save Energy, Save Tax Dollars For two decades, Dave Konkle made money by saving taxpayer dollars. As head of the award-winning Ann Arbor Energy Office, he led programs ...more
Coal Dump Karst: ‘Active’ or ‘Inactive’? Frank Krist worked at the Presque Isle County Health Department, so he’s seen the curious ways that underground water moves near some ...more
State Readies Rogers City Coal Ash Hearing Joe Veselenak remembers when a sinkhole tried to swallow the goal post at one end of Roger City High School’s football field. It was ...more
Biomass: Boon or Bugaboo? Traverse City Light & Power drew widespread praise when it announced plans to greatly reduce its fossil fuel use. But one possible ...more
New Questions as State Mulls Wolverine Coal Permit As an electric co-op awaits a state ruling on its push to build a controversial coal-fired power plant in Rogers City, evidence is mounting ...more
December 31, 2009 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 ...more
December 30, 2009 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 ...more
December 29, 2009 State Punts on New Coal Plants The Granholm administration’s decision to permit a new, unneeded coal plant near Bay City—and to postpone action on another ...more
December 24, 2009 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 ...more
Most Climate Delegates Accepting Obama’s ‘Accord’ On Saturday seven countries, led by the tiny island of Tuvalu, rejected the Copenhagen “Accord” hammered out by President ...more
 December 17, 2009 COPENHAGEN: Looking to Cities for Salvation Crowds and unrest grow at Copenhagen Conference ...more
One Week to Go in Copenhagen Like all spellbinding human drama, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which today entered its second and last week, represents ...more
Board Minutes: Big Drop in Co-op’s Power Demand One month after state regulators said there was no need for a proposed Rogers City coal plant, the power supply cooperative pushing to ...more
Copenhagen Climate Demonstration: Great social movements are about the intelligence and vision of individuals, and the compelling strength of crowds. Both have been in ...more
December 11, 2009 COPENHAGEN: ‘Youngos’ Wear Orange Wherever one goes in Copenhagen’s Bella Center there are young people gathered, sharing their stories and concerns and making plans ...more
December 11, 2009 COPENHAGEN: An Interview with Bill McKibben Nearly halfway through the Copenhagen climate negotiations there’s been a lot of drama—leaking the Danish texts, Tuvalu ...more
Execs Well Paid for Pushing Rogers City Coal Plant Executives at several Northern Michigan electric cooperatives have received handsome compensation and pension packages while promoting a ...more
TCL&P Seeks Clear Path to Clean Energy While two Michigan utilities pursue approval for new coal-fired power plants, Traverse City’s power company is headed in a different ...more
County Endorses Coal Ash Burial in Leaky Quarry Residents of Presque isle County listened 20 years ago when a state official cautioned them against placing a landfill in the town’s ...more
Climate Action Grows Across U.S. As Capitol Hill scandals go, a news story about the dirty tricks meant to trip up proposed federal action on climate change generated ...more
Co-op Study Attacks Jobs and Homegrown Energy Bill A trade association representing Michigan electric co-ops is attacking proposed state legislation that would create thousands of ...more
Town Flattened by Tornado Now Reaps the Wind Even if it were only one of a kind, Mike Este’s brand-new, energy-efficient, wind-powered, water conserving, environmentally ...more
State Ramps Up Green Jobs, but Pro-Coal Rally Heads to Lansing Now that a state agency has determined that Michigan has no need for the electricity from two proposed new coal-fired power plants, ...more |
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