State Superintendent Michael Rice urges the Michigan Legislature to quickly fund a full-time state preschool program, more tutors, free lunches and improve school buildings.
The stable, moderate climate that humans have enjoyed for our entire existence is beginning to disintegrate before our eyes. Where is the proportionate response to a truly existential climate crisis? This can’t be minimized as the ‘new normal.’
Deer are invading Michigan’s suburbs, resulting in car crashes, habitat destruction and disease concerns. But affectedMichigan communities probably can’t sterilize or kill enough deer to reverse the trend.
Michiganders voted for clean renewable energy and Great Lakes protections, in spite of dark money attacking pro-environment candidates. But even with Democrats in power, we must fight to meet the state’s climate change ambitions.
Michigan’s climate plan calls for access to clean transportation options be increased 15 percent a year. But the state must share more of its revenues with public transit agencies and allow for more flexibility to pass ballot measures.
From free school lunches and community college to water line improvements and subsidized field trips to Michigan’s state parks, the Democrat outlines her wish list. It could look very different once it’s approved.
Jobs related to renewable energy, electric vehicles energy efficiency and batteries have been among the fastest-growing parts of Michigan’s economy in recent years. But lawmakers must act on outdated policies to achieve full growth.
A recent study linking gas stoves to childhood asthma may have you wondering how to limit your risk. With the help of a University of Michigan lung health expert, we offer some tips.
Amid growing concern about the health and climate impacts of gas, Ann Arbor is considering a ban on new gas hookups. Republican lawmakers in Michigan and beyond want to make local bans illegal.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must lay out a bold vision to protect our waters, clean up toxic groundwater, keep water services from being privatized and put the onus on chemical companies to show they can operate safely.
Climate change is already affecting the Great Lakes. One group is urging Michigan, other Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces to coordinate efforts to make the Great Lakes basin more resilient to those changes.
Michigan wants to increase renewable energy. Will solar parks spread across hundreds of acres meet less resistance than wind turbines taller than the Washington Monument?
With winter surveys and summer insecticide treatment, Michigan aims to avoid the fate of Eastern states, which lost hemlocks to pests native to Japan. But warming winters are making it harder to stand our ground.
Blame the Great Lakes and climate change for Michigan’s dreary winters. And it appears to be getting worse as rising temperatures diminish ice cover on the lakes, allowing more moisture to rise in the atmosphere.
From polluter pay laws to plastic bag bans, Democratic lawmakers and environmental advocates hope to reverse Republican-passed laws and revisit Democratic issues that faltered in the Republican-led Legislature.
