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New Report Reveals That DTE Peak-Hour Rates Hurt the Poor
Poorer customers suffer "greater discomfort indoors," Detroit News reports, as summer A/C costs approach California levels.
by James David Dickson
When families cook and eat dinner this June in an air-conditioned home, they will…
EGLE Tightens Cleanup Rules for Ann Arbor 1,4 Dioxane Plume That’s Spreading
by Laina Stebbins
A state department and a long-polluting manufacturing company on Friday filed for new, strengthened cleanup standards at an Ann Arbor site that has been a source of underground contamination since the 1960s.
The…
City Council Votes to Crack Down on Scofflaws Parking in Bike Lanes–Including Delivery Drivers
by P.D. Lesko
Ann Arbor recently applied for and was awarded Gold-level status by the League of American Bicyclists. Cities self-report bicycling infrastructure (i.e. whether bike lanes are cleaned and plowed) in an application for…
Seven Days After Ice Storm 11K DTE Customers in County Still Without Power –Who’s to Blame?
by P.D. Lesko
As of Feb. 28, DTE's outage map showed that 5.24 percent of its customers in Washtenaw County--some 8,836 customers--are still without power as a result of a record-breaking Feb. 22 ice storm that knocked out power to over…
Rep. Dingell Secures $2.5 Million Federal Investment in Ann Arbor’s Carbon Neutrality Transition
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) recently met with Mayor Christopher Taylor and other City of Ann Arbor officials to discuss their plans for the $2.5 million direct federal investment Dingell secured in the omnibus appropriations…
Mark Your Calendars: Starting in March, DTE Will Charge Peak-Hour Rate
DTE Energy, electricity supplier to 40% of Michigan, will start charging a peak-hour rate in March.
“The residential rate is being changed to a variable Time of Day rate as a way to smooth out peaks in demand,” DTE says on its website.
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City Adding New 1,4 Dioxane Monitoring Wells in Garden Homes Park
A July 2021 map of dioxane contamination in the Ann Arbor area's groundwater. Pink is where readings are above 7.2 parts per billion, the state limit for dioxane in drinking water. The map shows the boundaries of the Gelman Sciences…
Study on Ann Arbor-Traverse City Rail Feasibility Rests on Fuzzy Math and Flimsy Data
by Jaime Hope
A project promoted by environmental activists to create a railway from Ann Arbor to Traverse City has recently gained $2.3 million in state and federal funds for a phase II feasibility study. An earlier study, conducted in…
EGLE Says Just Three Pounds of Hexavalent Chromium Dumped into Huron River by Tribar
by Kelly House
Michigan health officials say the Huron River is now safe for human contact, after state and outside investigations concluded that far less hexavalent chromium entered the waters than originally feared.
Just…
EVs and Solar Panels Have Moral and Environmental Trade-Offs
Slave labor and dirty environmental practices make green energy far from clean
by Jaime Hope, MCC
Green energy and climate activists say they support social and environmental justice. But the products they advocate are not compatible…