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This photo provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy in June 2020 shows damage to anchor support EP-17-1 on the east leg of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, displayed on a television screen. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy via AP, File)
Feds issue Line 5 tunnel permit, call it ‘not contrary to the public interest’
The US Army Corps of Engineers has permitted construction of the controversial Line 5 tunnel project in the Straits of Mackinac.
 
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Michigan issues Line 5 permits despite conceding its ‘significant impacts’
State agencies on Wednesday issued key permits for the controversial Line 5 tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac, concluding the project’s benefits outweigh drawbacks that include disruption to Native American burial sites and harm to wetlands and rare species.
 
In Michigan, 100K live downstream of old, decrepit dams. ‘We’re at their mercy’
Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his way.
 
Judge: Michigan should reject Consumers’ ‘highly problematic’ dam sale
Michigan should reject Consumers Energy’s plan to sell its 13 Michigan dams to an out-of-state private equity firm, an administrative law judge overseeing the proposed sale concluded Wednesday.
 
People swim in the Ocqueoc River at Ocqueoc Falls, near Rogers City, Mich., July 5, 2024. (Kathy Kieliszewski/Bridge Michigan via AP)
Michigan loves a ‘river story.’ But happy ending isn’t guaranteed
Michigan may be known as the Great Lakes state, but most of its residents have a river to thank for their hometown’s existence.
 
Appeals court issues split ruling in Michigan solar permitting suit
A state appeals panel on Thursday upheld the bulk of Michigan’s regulations limiting local control over renewable energy projects, while rejecting narrow aspects that critics had decried as regulatory overreach.
 
This photo provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows water flowing through the Cheboygan Dam April, 2026, in Cheboygan, Mich. (Michigan Department of Natural Resources via AP)
Feds order immediate inspection of Cheboygan Dam powerhouse
Federal energy regulators have ordered immediate inspections of the Cheboygan Dam powerhouse and other Michigan dams that faced the risk of failure in this month’s historic flooding.
 
This photo provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows water flowing through the Cheboygan Dam April, 2026, in Cheboygan, Mich. (Michigan Department of Natural Resources via AP)
Michigan’s latest dam safety crisis revives calls for reforms, funding
As waters recede from Michigan’s latest dam failure crisis, Michigan leaders are once again vowing action on reforms that could help prevent similar crises in the future.
 
Consumers seeks to delay millions in flood control upgrades as it pursues dam sales
Consumers Energy is looking to delay hundreds of millions of dollars in planned safety upgrades at the largest dam in Michigan while it seeks approval of a hotly-debated plan to sell the facility and 12 others.
 
A Wisconsin whitefish refuge offers lessons for Michigan. But will it last?
“There we go!”
 
Hundreds of miles of new transmission lines planned in Michigan
The company that owns much of Michigan’s electrical transmission system is planning to build more than 350 miles of new poles and wires in the next few years as it gears up for renewable power, extreme weather and energy-intensive developments.
 
Michigan loses $540 million in climate-related grants, along with green manufacturing projects

What a difference a year (and a political leadership change) makes.




At this time in 2024, Michigan was expecting a windfall of federal funds to fuel a transition to clean energy, along with billions of dollars’ worth of green manufacturing projects subsidized by the Biden administration’s signature climate spending bills.
 
Regulators approve DTE contracts for Michigan’s first hyperscale data center
Despite criticism that they were acting too fast, state utility regulators on Thursday approved DTE Energy’s proposal to supply power for Michigan’s first hyperscale data center — while tacking on a host of conditions that aim to protect ratepayers from subsidizing the facility.
 
Worries over Michigan’s dams resurface as repair funds run dry, reforms lag
Four years ago, in the wake of the infamous Midland dam failures, Michigan lawmakers appropriated more than $50 million to address other problem dams whose owners couldn’t or wouldn’t do so on their own.
 
Michigan OKs landmark regulations that push up-front costs to data centers
Michigan regulators on Thursday adopted landmark standards for the booming data center industry with a plan they say tries to protect residents from subsidizing the industry’s hefty energy use.
 
Consumers: Selling Michigan dams, paying double for power cheapest route
Consumers Energy plans to pay a premium price to buy back power from its 13 hydropower dams after selling them to a private equity firm for $1 apiece.
 
Michigan environmental regulators to start enforcing 2020 industrial farm pollution law
More than five years after first announcing stricter controls on industrial farm pollution in Michigan, state environmental regulators will finally start enforcing them.
 
Kaleb Barrientoz pulls a lake trout aboard the boat, Stormin' Norman, on Sept. 30, 2025, in Grand Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. (Kelly House/Bridge Michigan via AP)
Whitefish crash has Michigan fishers on the brink: ‘It makes you want to cry’
For more than three decades, Great Lakes fisherman Richard Boda has kept a handwritten logbook of his time on the water — a legacy to the son and daughter who would one day inherit the family business.
 
Consumers Energy picks private equity fund to buy Michigan dams for $1 apiece
Consumers Energy plans to sell its 13 aging and unprofitable Michigan hydropower dams to a subsidiary of a Maryland private equity firm for a dollar apiece.
 
Scientists wonder if Lake Superior can continue to avoid an invasion of mussels
Scientists wonder if Lake Superior can continue to avoid invasive mussels that have destroyed ecosystems and killed fish in the lower Great Lakes.
 

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