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Michigan environmental news: State faces $85 billion water funding need as aging pipes fail

Voices: How clean energy can drive Detroit’s growth

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore $7 billion in Solar For All grants

Rural Michigan leaders push back against data center boom as election looms

Voices: Michigan PFAS Awareness Week is a call to action

Voices: The PFAS rollback is not the whole problem

Detroit women lead fight against decades of pollution in Southwest neighborhoods

Voices: Supporting Detroit’s urban farms boosts city’s resilience

Where’s the environment in Michigan election? ‘The vocabulary and framing has changed’

Michigan environmental news: Detroit tornado damage, DTE Gas rate hike request, COVID vaccine delay for kids

As Michigan bans phones in classrooms, educator argues for teaching digital literacy instead

Data center news: Dingell calls for pause on University of Michigan’s Ypsilanti Township supercomputing project

Voices: Michigan’s water systems need cybersecurity coordination after summer attacks

Trump EPA moves to eliminate climate rules for coal, gas power plants

Michigan environmentalists push for statewide data center moratorium, regulations as bills stall

Federal court throws out Trump order forcing Michigan coal plant to stay open

Michigan environmental news: $74.5 million DTE Gas rate hike is less than half utility’s requested amount

CatchLight selects Planet Detroit for grant to report on climate anxiety among Detroit youth

Environmental groups call for Detroit data center moratorium as city develops ordinance

Students and teachers brace for Michigan’s new classroom phone ban

Michigan environmental news: DTE says July storm impact 20 times worse than forecast

Enbridge Line 5 leaks natural gas in Wisconsin, prompting evacuations

DTE will seek approval for 2 natural gas plants as coal phases out, data centers go online

Is the Detroit River alive?

What went wrong in Flint? New report reveals investigation details after Supreme Court ended cases

Southeast Michigan’s flood cleanups continue in courtrooms, boardrooms: How are we rebuilding for stormier future?

Campaign finance reform proposal heads to Michigan voters after Senate declines to act

Gibraltar faces data center developer lawsuit after city passes moratorium

Army Corps cuts funding, shortens timeline for Southeast Michigan flood study

Michigan’s utility regulator to host Detroit energy affordability workshop: ‘Ultimately this is about people’

Michigan environmental news: Fall colors forecast, butterfly rescue success, summer COVID uptick

Michiganders for Money Out Of Politics faces final hurdles: Lawsuit, Legislature

Southwest Detroit students detained by ICE while traveling to summer job: ‘Their parents didn’t know where they were’

State canvassers approve Michiganders for Money Out Of Politics ballot language

Voices: What Detroit’s flooding crisis reveals about building resilient Great Lakes cities

Michigan environmental news: 105,000 without power after overnight storms, more severe weather expected

How Michigan attorney general race could reshape utility regulation, ratepayer protection

Downriver residents call for Wyandotte to switch drinking water source due to pollution near Detroit River intake

After F2 tornado, Detroit council wants to know about DTE Energy alternatives

DTE wants approval for Google data center power contracts: What’s at stake with 1-gigawatt Van Buren Township project?

University of Michigan’s Ypsilanti Township computing center plans meet with anger at town hall: ‘Enormous distrust’

Michigan constitutional convention opponents say environmental protections at risk: ‘Pandora’s box’