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Jan 22, 2025 | 
secondwavemedia.com | Elinor Epperson
A consortium of watershed councils in Southeast Michigan is offering training on how to create a rain garden. The Washtenaw County Water Resources Commission and Huron River Watershed Council (HRWC) are among those hosting the virtual course, which runs for five Thursdays starting Jan. 30. A rain garden is a depressed area containing plants that is designed to reduce runoff around a building.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ourmidland.com | Elinor Epperson
LANSING – Michigan is part of an effort to build hydrogen infrastructure in the Midwest. The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2) has received $22 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to plan several projects, three of which are in Michigan. Article continues below this adThe alliance, backed by the Michigan Infrastructure Office, wants to expand the Flint Mass Transportation Authority’s fleet of hydrogen fuel buses.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
bridgemi.com | Elinor Epperson |Michigan Public
LANSING – Michigan is part of an effort to build hydrogen infrastructure in the Midwest. The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2) has received $22 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to plan several projects, three of which are in Michigan. The alliance, backed by the Michigan Infrastructure Office, wants to expand the Flint Mass Transportation Authority’s fleet of hydrogen fuel buses.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
greatlakesecho.org | Elinor Epperson
By Elinor EppersonThe Environmental Protection Agency has banned the use of perchloroethylene in dry cleaning processes. The chemical will be phased out over a 10-year period. The EPA has banned all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE) and most uses of perchloroethylene (PCE). Those are cancer-causing chemicals used in a variety of consumer products and industrial processes. TCE is used in spray coatings for arts and crafts, for example.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
greatlakesecho.org | Elinor Epperson
By Elinor EppersonCapital News ServiceMichigan is part of an effort to build hydrogen infrastructure in the Midwest. The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2) has received $22 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to plan several projects, three of which are in Michigan. The alliance, backed by the Michigan Infrastructure Office, wants to expand the Flint Mass Transportation Authority’s fleet of hydrogen fuel buses.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
greatlakesecho.org | Elinor Epperson
By Elinor EppersonCapital News ServiceThree miles of westbound I-94 in Wayne and Washtenaw counties are already set up for connected and automated vehicles. Now the Department of Transportation wants public feedback on the proposed project, which would include almost 40 miles of I-94 if completed. It’s proposed to eventually span about 39 miles between Ann Arbor and Detroit. The lane would be reserved for connected and automated vehicles, or CAVs for short.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
secondwavemedia.com | Elinor Epperson
Like many Ann Arborites, Melinda James tries to conserve energy at home. But the 73-year-old retiree, who has a fixed income and relies on a CPAP machine to sleep, worries about the possibility of power outages. "[I] may have to go into a hotel," she says. "And who has hotel money?" James is a 25-year resident of Ann Arbor's Bryant neighborhood, where she's become part of a groundbreaking sustainability project that would alleviate her outage concerns and make her entire community more sustainable.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
wemu.org | Elinor Epperson
The EPA has banned all uses of tricholoroethylene (TCE) and most uses of perchloroethylene (PCE). Those are cancer-causing chemicals used in a variety of consumer products and industrial processes. The new rules will ban both chemicals from all consumer products (TCE is used in spray coatings for arts and crafts, for example). Most of these will be banned within a year, according to the EPA. Some products, like cleaners for aviation parts, will take longer to phase out.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Elinor Epperson
The deadline to file a claim to qualify for a settlement from the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency is approaching. Thousands of workers filed for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some received them — and then had to repay that money. A class-action lawsuit alleges the agency took some of those benefits back without properly reviewing workers' appeals.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Elinor Epperson
More than 100 people gathered in Lansing Wednesday to support legislation that would simplify Michigan’s process for making official changes to a person's name and gender marker. Advocates visited lawmakers in their offices to ask that they prioritize House bills 5300 through 5303. They also rallied at the Capitol and visited Speaker of the House Joe Tate (D-Detroit). Organizers kept outdoor activities to a minimum thanks to the cold and wind.
