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Michigan environmental news: DTE ties future rate freeze to data centers
DTE Energy proposes a 7.6% rate increase but promised a two-year freeze if Oracle and Google data centers deliver revenue. Plus: Detroit Riverwalk reopens, toxic dirt scandal expands, and Michigan faces surge in Lyme disease cases.
Michigan environmental news: Cheboygan dam crisis prompts 24/7 emergency response
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who has extended a state of emergency to 32 counties due to flooding and severe weather, visits the Cheboygan dam site alongside state and local officials.
After Zug Island pollution lawsuit, attorney urges community engagement
The Sierra Club holds a community meeting in River Rouge on the outcome of the EPA’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over Zug Island pollution.
Detroit forms data center working group after council backs moratorium
Detroit City Councilman Scott Benson convened a stakeholder working group to develop zoning policies for data centers, following the council’s March resolution urging a two-year development moratorium.
EPA: Detroit’s air quality meets sulfur dioxide standards
Sulfur dioxide pollution from facilities like DTE Energy’s EES Coke Battery has impacted Detroit and Downriver for years.
Anti-data center rallies planned in Detroit, Ann Arbor Saturday: ‘People don’t want these at all’
Residents in Detroit, Ann Arbor and four other Michigan cities will rally this weekend against data center projects, connect their opposition to a ballot initiative that would ban utility political donations.
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.
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