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Up North Rally 2008

January 12, 2008 – 12:42 pm

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Woods, water and wind (not to mention jobs and investment!)

December 14, 2007 – 4:02 pm

Yesterday featured a number of interesting stories at the intersection of where we’ve been and where we’re going. First, the Traverse City Record-Eagle had another great story by AP environmental writer John Flesher about declining access to thousands of acres in the UP that has been available to the public for more than a century [...]

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Celebrating Labor Day 2007

September 3, 2007 – 12:46 pm

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The grades are in

July 13, 2006 – 10:53 am

The Michigan League of Conservation Voters has once again released their legislative scorecard, and once again, my opponent has received a failing grade for consistently voting against measures designed to protect Michigan’s natural heritage. On the eight issues most important to protecting our state’s environment, the Michigan LCV gave my opponent a score of just [...]

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Energy Fair Offers Promise of Growth for Northwest Michigan

June 15, 2006 – 11:18 am

In 1925, Henry Ford predicted that cars rolling off his assembly lines would someday be fueled by vegetation “like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust – almost anything.” [1] Nearly a century later, renewable, plant-based fuel is on its way to becoming a large-scale reality. This weekend, the Michigan Energy [...]

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“Outrageously reckless”

April 4, 2006 – 11:48 am

A new report out from the Michigan Land Use Institute sheds some light on a dangerous loophole in Michigan’s new Water Legacy Act that undermines our state’s ability to secure the future of our Great Lakes. Though there is much to like in the new law, the law contains language that allows for the first [...]

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