In order to get just five percent of its energy from biomass the 600 megawatt power plant planned by Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City will burn 255,000 tons of freshly cut Northern Michigan trees each year.
This is among the issues that will be considered at a More…
The state Dept. of Environmental Quality is asking people to weigh in on new aspects of the long-delayed plan to build a coal-fired power plant in Rogers City.
Last year the DEQ denied a permit for the proposed 600 megawatt power plant after finding that Wolverine had not More…
A military veterans group is arguing that a Republican bill to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions would weaken national security by harming efforts to reduce dependence on oil.
Operation Free, a coalition of veterans and national security organizations focused on the security benefits of More…
Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s More…
Yesterday, it was Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) citing “Climategate” as reason to doubt the legitimacy of the EPA’s recent finding that greenhouse emissions threaten public health. Today it’s Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) offering the same critique. In a call with reporters, Grassley said Congress never More…
At the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) claimed that there were only 25 “aye” votes in the Senate for the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. The “Climategate” scandal, over e-mails obtained from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit that skeptics claim to show scientists forging global warming More…
There is a thing called thoughtful skepticism, but this release from the Republican Study Committee, condemning the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions threaten human health, isn’t it.
“This is good news for all those opposed to the despicable practice of breathing,” the statement reads, “but it may More…
This is a deeply strange story, ably picked apart by the smart conservative blogger Ed Morrissey. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has been making the rounds today claiming that the climate bill includes a provision that — in the words of the Washington Examiner — “requires President Obama More…
This morning, Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council unveiled a proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States 24 percent by 2020 and 85 percent by 2050. These targets are much more ambitious than President Obama’s plan to cut emissions 14 percent (back to their 1990 More…
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