Tom Henry

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

The historic restart effort of the Palisades nuclear plant in southwest Michigan wasn’t mentioned by name in Maria Korsnick’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry speech in Washington on Tuesday. But it’s part of the lobbying efforts for getting Congress to retain nuclear tax credits that were part of the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act. Ms. Korsnick is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry’s chief lobbying group on Capitol Hill.

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

The massive campaign to plant 250 million trees across the Great Lakes region by 2033 is off and running, with an estimated 27 million planted during the first full year of the initiative, the conference of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers announced Monday. The Chicago-based group is the official body of governors from the eight Great Lakes states and the premiers from Ontario and Quebec.

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

Summer’s coming. But that’s not distracting a major U.S.-Canada advisory board from trying to learn more about what’s happening beneath Great Lakes ice during the winter. The topic was the subject of an hourlong webinar hosted Thursday by the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes science advisory board. Some 153 people attended.

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

New and amended contentions challenging the historic Palisades restart effort were heard Thursday by a three-judge panel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s national headquarters in the Washington suburb of Rockville, Md. The matter was brought before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board by five activist groups, Maryland-based Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Pennsylvania-based Three Mile Island Alert, and the Maryland-based Nuclear Information and...

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

More than 200 University of Toledo students will receive doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy, or master’s degrees when the UT’s college of medicine and life sciences hosts the university’s final spring commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. Friday inside Savage Arena. Every one of them has a story of perseverance and triumph. But few come from a family of so many doctors and trailblazers as Julianna Sim, 26, the daughter of Carrie and Chris Sim.