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EVs and Solar Panels Have Moral and Environmental Trade-Offs

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Aug 15, 2022

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…

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DTE and Consumers Energy Have No Plans To Expand Michigan Customer Solar Programs, Despite Demand

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 17, 2014 0

by Andy Balaskovitz Midwest Energy News—IN LESS THAN two weeks, staff from the Michigan Public Service Commission will issue a draft report on how the state’s two largest investor-owned utilities could improve solar options for their…

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THE ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Solar Industry Shattered Records In 2013—2014 Sales Set To Shine

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 14, 2014 0

According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) Solar Market Insight Year in Review 2013, photovoltaic (PV) installations expanded rapidly last year, increasing 41 percent over 2012 to reach 4,751 megawatts…