Michigan Environmental Report

MISO, the folks in charge of managing the grid, have made it clear that Michigan actually has excess capacity. This is an attempt by the utilities to hang on to old, inefficient coal plants they should have shut down years ago.

Though he now lives on the East Coast, it's clear that Cheboygan-raised David Ermisch still loves Michigan's Great Lakes and wild places. For one thing, he didn't let a late-summer cold front with temperatures in the 50s stop him from swimming in Lake Michigan during a visit to his family's cottage in the Upper Peninsula.

In each issue of the Michigan Environmental Report, we celebrate accomplishments by MEC and member groups.

Michigan Environmental Council is collaborating with Ecology Center, Harriet Tubman Center, Metro Matters, M.O.S.E.S., Transportation for Michigan (Trans4M), and Transportation Riders United (TRU) to form Momentum, a regional coalition for 21st century transit in Greater Detroit.

The transportation funding package Gov. Snyder signed into law last November brought a disappointing end to the years-long debate over how to raise much-needed funding for Michigan's transportation system. The approved package has many serious failures.

We've been getting calls in our office lately from people concerned about the Flint water crisis-folks from as far away as West Virginia and New Mexico-who want to know what they can do to help.

Michigan's solar industry employed 2,779 people in 2015, a 32 percent increase from 2014, according to industry data released Wednesday.

Today was a big day in the ongoing effort to protect our fisheries and fresh water by keeping factory fish farming out of the Great Lakes.