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Michigan's Rep. Fred Upton fiddles with climate change show as gas prices,...
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing on climate change was today. Nice that the Republicans brought real scientists this time rather than charlatans like Lord Monckton.The hearing was...
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Michigan scientists have message for Washington, Upton: Don't make Congress a...
Upton: For climate action before he was against itMore than 160 Michigan scientists have signed a letter urging Congress to “reject any measure that would block or delay the U.S. Environmental...
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"We are cutting the science and warning systems that protect us from this...
This quote on CNN’s earthquake/tsunami coverage tonight from Jeffrey Sachs, an economist, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential...
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Report: 241 Michigan companies employ 10,000 workers in wind and solar supply...
...in solar energy jobsMichigan has 241 companies supplying parts for wind and solar industries and they employ 10,000 Michiganders according to this report issued this week by the Environmental Law...
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Synder Administration inexplicably blocks outdoor burn barrel ban; and it is...
April 1 was to have been the day Michigan’s ban on burning household garbage in backyard burn barrels took effect. It would have taken Michigan off the dubious list of a handful of states that still...
View ArticleNewspaper correction of the month!
The New York Times carried a story on President Obama’s speech this week in which he called for the nation to reduce its oil imports by one-third over the next decade. As Jon Stewart has pointed out...
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D'OH!! Climate skeptic scientists' data inconvenient for billionaire oil...
So two oil magnate billionaire brothers walk into a bar scientific discussion. They spend a bunch of money to help fund a fresh analysis of climate change data conducted by a scientist who’s...
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Beekeeping's subversive secret: These little traitors are anti-free market...
The hive. Karen did the artwork.I’m in bee school. The wise old hands from the Southeastern Michigan Beekeepers Association are teaching me and several dozen other wannabes the ancient art and science...
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New study finds that....um...the uh....what was....oh yeah dude...so what...
Sometimes you learn stuff that just makes you go:“Dude…..I’m like, so….um…you know when the uh….oh, man, .I forgot what I was going to say…..hey, are those Cheetos all gone?”So it is with the news that...
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Detroit News duo vie to pen most outlandish, spiteful tirade against all...
Editorial columnists gone wild!Pointing out errors, inconsistencies and tortured logic in Detroit News editorial writers’ ugly screeds against environmentalists and all they stand for could be a...
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If eggs and meat are made in the supermarket, where does your tap water come...
My drinking water source. Eat your heart out.We’ve probably all heard stories about city kids who think eggs are made in the supermarket, or can’t identify where their meat comes from. Eventually they...
View ArticleConsumers Energy asks to cut customers' renewable energy cost by 72 percent !
Mitten State reported weeks ago that Consumers Energy customers’ utility bills would be lowered because renewable electricity was turning out to be substantially less expensive than originally...
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Spring! The season of rebirth. And carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine...
I posted a version of this a year ago. And probably will each spring when the annual rain of poisons descends on my neighborhood:The lawn care trucks are back at it, hosing down suburban lawns with...
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Michigan Senate cave dwellers vote to cripple Great Lakes protection, strip...
SB 272 sponsorsBack in the 1970s Lake Erie was dying and Michigan’s waterways were choked with weeks and algae. Phosphorus from laundry detergents was identified as a major culprit in the problems. But...
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An antidote to what ails you; a remedy for disillusionment: Michigan's Dark...
Unnecessary light pollution plagues our cities, suburbs and countrysides.Gas stations are illuminated like white hot suns. Whole floors of office buildings stay lit for a solitary night owl worker. And...
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Environmental funders reassess climate change tactics: First base starting to...
Oops, wrong first base photo!Shortly after joining the Michigan Environmental Council in 2006, I became aware of an obscure public notice in the Federal Register soliciting comments on a plan for the...
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I get a campsite, you get Pure Michigan NASCAR and everybody's happy
Seemed reasonable at the time!There are eight rustic camp sites, first come, first served.There were three left when we got there, and we got site #2. It wasn’t one of the lakefront spots, but it was...
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The Alamo? Not so much, but bike sharing service in San Antonio was the real...
This woman does not come with the bikeOur trip to San Antonio would have been much, much different if not for their outstanding new Bcycle service, which allows people to check out bicycles and drop...
View ArticleCatching up: Michigan River News; North America's awesome-ist marathon river...
Geez. Looks like we've got some catching up to do!In June, the Michigan Environmental Council released a report showing that the state’s oldest coal-fired power plants cost $1.5 billion annually in...
View ArticleWhat Nolan Finley really means
No links in this post. Just some plain English translations of Nolan Finley's recent columnspreading unfounded terror among the citizenry....... EPA raises risk of blackouts As an opinion columnist, I...
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How it came that I took a faceful of skunk juice
Skunked!Perhaps this is the impetus for the resurrection of Mitten State. All I know, sitting in this stinking living room with these stinking dogs and a face full of skunk spray, is that I have to...
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GOP scuttles two-week pause on billions in tax breaks for Big Oil; and the...
I don’t see the Tea Party folks quoted in this story, but I’m sure they were screaming loudly about the billions in tax breaks for big oil that were maintained by a mostly party-line vote in the U.S....
View ArticleNew data: Clean energy in Michigan comes in cheaper than coal; utility says...
Everyone knows renewable energy is way more expensive than the ‘cheap’ coal touted by those slick industry advertisements Right?Two words: Bull. Puckey. And a pair of stunning new developments in...
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An interview with me. Because it's all about me.
I try to make Mitten State not about me. It doesn’t always work out that way. So here’s a link to a short story and lengthy (23 minute) podcast of my appearance on the Greening of the Great Lakes radio...
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