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June 13, 2008
States Mandating Clean Energy Cash In on Green Economy
As Lansing hesitates, Michigan misses out
One noticeable feature on Newton, Iowa’s Web site is a map of the cemetery. Until recently, it seemed a fitting ...more
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Clean-energy innovation is the key
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

Michigan accelerates the state’s lagging clean-energy industry
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

Students in Charleston rally against coal
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

Heritage Sustainable Energy
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

Wind turbines as money-saving educational opportunities
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

Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell
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

Roof-mounted wind turbines
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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