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For goodness lakes Michigan Lt. Governor John Cherry says the Great Lakes need help	Guest author	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Michigan Lt. Governor John Cherry, who has been working recently to preserve and restore the Great Lakes. ----- Lt. Gov. John CherryI'm especially pleased to be a guest blogger on Grist today, since earlier today legislation was introduced in the United States Senate and House of Representatives to ratify the Great Lakes Compact. Now that the Compact has been ratified by the eight Great Lakes states, as well as the Canadian provinces ...
Topics: habitat protection, legislation, Michigan, politics, state politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Score one for Dow Chemical In the EPA's Midwestern division, a pro-industry stalwart replaces a dioxin stickler	Tom Philpott	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Back in May, Mary Gade found herself unceremoniously ousted from her post as Midwest regional administrator of the EPA. According to an excellent Chicago Tribune article by Michael Hawthorne, Gade had been locked in a battle with Dow over the chemical giant's massive, long-standing dioxin mess in low-income areas of Michigan. Hawthorne reports that Gade crossed a line with her bosses in Washington when 'she sent contractors to test soil in [one] neighborhood where D ...
Topics: Michigan, politics, toxics, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

A matter of rust Obama talks up energy plans in the Rust Belt	Kate Sheppard	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama was in Wayne, Pa., on Saturday, where he highlighted energy costs and the need for new energy policy in a town hall meeting. 'It isn't an accident that gas prices are this high,' the presumptive Democratic nominee told the crowd. 'It's because Washington failed to deal with the challenge of alternative energy when it had the chance. Instead we've had an energy policy that's been written by and for the big oil and gas companies.' Obama impugned Geor ...
Topics: Barack Obama, economy, Michigan, Muckraker, news, Pennsylvania, politics (all these topics)

Michigan WIC whacks organic Evidently, women, infants, and children in need don't deserve organic	Tom Philpott	28 May 2008	Gristmill
The Women, Infants, and Children program provides food aid to 'low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk,' according to the USDA website. The federal government funds the program through grants to states, which then decide how to allocate the cash. Evidently, in Michigan -- a state undergoing severe economic strain -- some bureaucrats have bought into ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, green living, health, Michigan, organic food, parenting, shopping (all these topics)

Front and Center Folks with ties to the Earth Liberation Front indicted in Michigan blaze		12 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 5:12 PM on 12 Mar 2008 The Earth Liberation Front has made the news yet again: Four people tied to the radical group have been indicted on arson charges for a 1999 blaze at Michigan State University. sources: Detroit Free Press, Reuters, Associated Press From the Archives Off the Hook. Salmon fishing season in California and Oregon may be canceled. Gasp! EPA lowers ozon ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, eco-terrorism, Michigan, news (all these topics)

Mitt Me With Your Best Shot Romney wins Michigan GOP primary after bashing McCain on fuel economy		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:18 PM on 15 Jan 2008 Mitt Romney won Michigan's Republican primary on Tuesday, after whacking John McCain for supporting tougher fuel-economy regulations and promoting "radical climate change legislation." Romney portrayed himself as a defender of Michigan's floundering auto industry and said the automakers shouldn't be burdened with having to produce more fuel-efficient cars ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, Michigan, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Romney takes Michigan	David Roberts	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
CNN is calling Michigan for Romney. Guess all that pandering worked.This means a long and extremely divisive race on the R side.
Topics: Michigan, presidential race 08, elections, politics, Mitt Romney (all these topics)

Pandering in Michigan Romney and McCain treat Michigan workers like credulous children	David Roberts	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Romney and McCain are campaigning furiously in Michigan, and it's tight. Romney, for whom Michigan is make-or-break, seems to have decided it's in his best interests to sell fantasies: Mr. Romney criticized the energy bill signed into law last month by President Bush that requires cars and trucks sold in the United States to achieve a fleet average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Substantial majorities in both parties in both houses of Congress approved the mea ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Michigan, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

That'll Teach 'Em Colleges around the country take green steps		20 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 20 Dec 2007 Are you thinking what we're thinking? Yep: It's time for a green college roundup! Maine's College of the Atlantic has made good on its pledge to be a carbon-neutral campus, say school officials. "As far as we know, [COA is] the first in the world to make the commitment, and as far as we know, the first to do it," says David Hales, president of the 300-student college, which offers one major ...
Topics: climate, education, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, news, Oregon (all these topics)

Lighting the Way Ann Arbor, Mich., declares itself first U.S. city to use LEDs in all its streetlights		18 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:08 AM on 18 Oct 2007 Ann Arbor, Mich., home to the main campus of the University of Michigan, announced that it intends to become the first U.S. city to convert all of its downtown streetlights to LEDs (light-emitting diodes). The energy-saving lights use half the energy and are expected to last five times as long. In two years, when the city of 113,000 completes the conversion of ...
Topics: energy efficiency, Michigan, news (all these topics)

Bring in the noise For every problem there's a solution that's simple, attractive, and wrong	JMG	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Like the noise standard one jurisdiction in Michigan has adopted for wind turbines: 'Based on their studies, noise was identified as a key problem. After lengthy research and discussion the regulation was made simple. 'If it makes noise and we can measure it, you shut it down,' Arndt said.' Shall we apply that to coal burners and natural gas turbines (jet engines)??
Topics: energy, Michigan, wind power (all these topics)

Ignoring science: Not just for Republicans anymore! Michigan gov. follows Gingrich's example, kills science advisory board	JMG	26 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich, claiming a mandate to make government smaller, actually managed to abolish only two offices: the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The OTA was a widely praised, nonpartisan board that helped Congress understand and deal with technical issues -- exactly the kind of office you don't need if you get your understanding of biology from Genesis, your thoughts on telecommunications from K Street, and your opin ...
Topics: legislation, Michigan, Newt Gingrich, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Chickens coming home to roost Hope they don't want any corn	JMG	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
What? A sharply hotter climate and abundant CO2 aren't good for field crops? But, but ... the coal lobby Greening Earth Society said they would be! Fitting: the photo accompanying this story in The Detroit News shows a huge trailer of corn being deposited at an ethanol plant. Michigan corn may have been knee-high by July, but a scorching summer has made the harvest one of the worst in the nation, federal statistics show. Early hopes for a fruitful harvest have give ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, Michigan (all these topics)

'Strict constructionists' Self-proclaimed conservatives often simply just like different outcomes	JMG	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Michigan has an important case up before a state Supreme Court known for two things: Making radical revisions to laws the Republican majority dislikes, and proclaiming its strict textualism in interpreting the law. In the case before the Supreme Court, attorneys for Nestle Waters North America have argued in opposition to citizens' rights under [the Michigan Environmental Protection Act], saying that citizens must be 'directly affected' by an environmental action to go to court ...
Topics: litigation, Michigan, politics (all these topics)

Traded In His Chevy for a Cad Attack Speaking in Detroit, Obama tells Big Auto where to go		08 May 2007	Daily Grist
Traded In His Chevy for a Cad Attack Speaking in Detroit, Obama tells Big Auto where to go Presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) took his rhetoric to Detroit yesterday, challenging the U.S. auto industry to get with the times. "The need to drastically change our energy policy is no longer a debatable proposition," he said in a speech to the city's Economic Club. "It i ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Big Auto, business, Michigan, news, politics (all these topics)

Who's On First? Officials in suburban Detroit point fingers over contaminated park		07 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Who's On First? Officials in suburban Detroit point fingers over contaminated park You remember when Katrina hit, and officials spent their time blaming each other instead of helping people? This is sort of like that, only smaller, and with less wind. Unsuspecting families in a Detroit suburb have played in a contaminated county park for years while city, county, and state officials argued over a cleanup plan. Repeated soil tests in ...
Topics: Michigan, news, toxics (all these topics)

When Guvs Try Enviros hope to make gains with gubernatorial races in key states	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Oct 2006	Muckraker
With Election Day just over two weeks away, Muckraker brings you part two of our roundup of gubernatorial races with important green angles. Last week, in part one, we chronicled the hottest campaigns along the Eastern seaboard. This week, we're briefing you on a few of the must-watch races in the Midwest and Pacific regions. Michigan: Jennifer Granholm (D) vs. Dick DeVos (R) Jenn ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Colorado, elections, Michigan, Muckraker, Ohio, Oregon, politics, state politics (all these topics)

The Real Thing Coca-Cola learns a tough lesson about corporate sustainability	Andrew J. Hoffman	05 Sep 2006	Soapbox
In January 2006, the University of Michigan suspended the purchase of Coca-Cola products on its campus. Corporate decision-makers should pay heed: this event is notable on several dimensions. Coke learns that CSR is the real thing. Photo: iStockphoto First, this decision was not due to any problems with product or pricing. Instead, the university cut the contract because of concerns ove ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, Michigan (all these topics)

A Lansing Blow Michigan demands 90 percent cut to mercury emissions from power plants		18 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
A Lansing Blow Michigan demands 90 percent cut to mercury emissions from power plants Tired of other states getting all the eco-love, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) has ordered her state's coal-burning power plants to slash mercury emissions by 90 percent by 2015. Her plan will not be a cap-and-trade system, but will allow companies to produce a 90 percent average cut across all their plants, meaning some plants can pollute mor ...
Topics: Michigan, news, toxics (all these topics)

Black and White and Mad All Over Unlikely allies send a dispatch from an enviro-justice tour in Michigan		05 Nov 2005	Dispatches
Lynn Henning (left) is a farmer whose family grows corn and soy on 300 acres in Hudson, Mich. She is an organizer with the Sierra Club's Water Sentinels program, testing local rivers and creeks for contamination from factory farms. Rhonda Anderson (right) is a single mother and longtime community activist in Detroit. She is an environmental-justice organizer for the Sierra Club. Saturday ...
Topics: Dispatches, environmental justice, Michigan, politics (all these topics)

Hapless Wetlands Supreme Court will hear two Clean Water Act cases		13 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Hapless Wetlands Supreme Court will hear two Clean Water Act cases The first U.S. Supreme Court session under Chief Justice John Roberts will feature two cases pitting government regulatory power against private property rights -- precisely the area where greens most fear Roberts' jurisprudence. Both cases originated in Michigan, and ask whether the federal government has jurisdiction under the Clean W ...
Topics: Michigan, news, politics, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

The Pledge of Reason Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		23 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. Yesterday evening, the Road to Detroit team of organizers joined up with our brave Drive the Future we ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

What's All the Bus About? Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		22 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Monday, 22 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. In the madness of classic cars and signs reading "Burn Out," "Light Her Up," a ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Mind Over Motor Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		19 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Friday, 19 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. We know you know about fuel-efficient cars. You may even own one. Peak oil, the rising price at the pump, an ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Granholm Don't Come for Free Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm shows D.C. Dems how to do it		10 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
A Granholm Don't Come for Free Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm shows D.C. Dems how to do it With Beltway Democrats in a tizzy trying to figure out how to appeal to the working class, and Beltway environmentalists in a tizzy trying to figure out how to appeal to Beltway Democrats, both groups might want to check out the State of the State speech delivered this week by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D). In the f ...
Topics: Michigan, news, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

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