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What we’re reading: Sheffield targets property tax cuts in first State of the City
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield used her first State of the City address to call on employers to match the city’s $21.45 living wage while announcing plans to cut property taxes and build 1,000 new homes.
Is your air safe? A guide to cumulative pollution impact in Southwest Detroit
Bills introduced the Michigan Legislature would require the state’s environmental regulator to conduct cumulative impact assessments. What does this mean for environmentally burdened Southwest Detroit?
DTE appeals $100 million federal judgment over Zug Island air pollution
DTE Energy is challenging a federal court’s $100-million judgment over sulfur dioxide pollution from its Zug Island coke facility. The utility must also fund $20 million in community air quality programs.
Century of contamination: How Zug Island became Detroit’s industrial epicenter
Early ideas for the island included a city garbage dump with a promise of the operations being “smokeless and odorless,” or improving the land into a “healthful resort similar in attractiveness to Belle Isle.”
Data center news: Michigan Chamber, DTE among members of new data center coalition
The group Michigan for Responsible Data Centers says it counters “misinformation” about the facilities and aims to provide fact-based resources to communities.
Wixom weighs data center ordinance: ‘We aren’t necessarily prepared’
Wixom’s draft data center ordinance creates a buffer between the facilities and residential areas.
Google, DTE plan 1 gigawatt Michigan data center, eye Van Buren Township site
2.7 GW of renewable energy, battery storage, and demand response will be used to serve data center, Google says — enough electricity to power roughly 2 million homes.
How much do DTE, Consumers customers pay in utility profits?
Lower shareholder returns, consumer advocacy are needed to improve affordability, former utility regulator says.
Gibraltar data center could support DTE grid with diesel generators: Developer
Developer looks to convince Gibraltar City Council to rescind moratorium but may also pursue waiver. Many residents say they’re concerned with impacts to Humbug Marsh.
Gibraltar passes data center moratorium: Facility proposed at former McLouth Steel site
The Gibraltar project differs from most Michigan data center proposals: it would redevelop an industrial site and use an existing building.
Ann Arbor voters could form city-owned utility in November: ‘Nobody has a good story about DTE’
Campaigners for an Ann Arbor municipal utility are collecting signatures to put a question on the November ballot, offering residents a path to replace DTE Energy with public power.
Data center news: DTE Energy’s data center pipeline could require power of 6 nuclear plants
Experts warn Michigan’s aging grid, flat energy demand, and lengthy interconnection queues make accommodating data center growth a major challenge, though many proposed projects may never be built.
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