Can Michigan’s troubled utilities handle the climate crisis?
Recent hearings reveal the ‘elephant in the room’ – government and business forced to confront the climate crisis.
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OPINION: DTE & Consumers Energy offered clear lessons at this week’s power outage hearings. Legislators need to act on them.
To fix utilities, lawmakers must stop the bleeding, treat the disease and follow up with preventative care.
Why an Alaskan oil project sparked national outrage
Juan Jhong Chung, climate justice director for the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, told Planet Detroit that his organization was keeping an eye on the issue because it could signal the administration’s priorities on climate action and environmental justice.
Michigan legislators introduce bipartisan bill package to enable community solar
The proposal would allow Michigan residents and businesses to subscribe to a portion of production capacity from off-site solar facilities, with the production being credited towards their utility bills.
OPINION: Hey MDOT, we need public transit to Ann Arbor, not an ‘autonomous vehicle corridor’
Most experts agree that autonomous tech is still years away from widespread public use, so why are we spending millions to turn a highway into a testing facility, especially when we are already so far behind in road funding?
Where was the environment in Duggan’s State of the City?
While the mayor touched on serious problems like gun violence, he failed to mention air pollution, basement flooding, water shutoffs, or the power outages that left thousands of Detroiters in the dark recently.
DTE is asking to hike electric rates again. What Michigan customers need to know.
The company is asking for $622 million a year from ratepayers, and residential customers would see the sharpest increase.
State regulators ask EPA to ignore Detroit air quality data, paving way to avoid ozone regulation
Ozone is a known cause and trigger of asthma. The asthma mortality rate in Detroit in 2017-2019 was about three times the rate for Michigan.
After the ice: Anger and a push for public utilities
Municipalities from Ann Arbor to Highland Park to Pontiac are calling for public utilities amid DTE power outages.
