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Green with ENVI
September 17, 2007 – 10:01 am
While you might not know it from all the budget news out of Lansing, the last couple weeks have seen some big news at the crossroads of economic growth and the environment. First, today’s Great Lakes IT Report is reporting that Chrysler is setting up a new entrepreneurial engineering division to focus the company’s efforts [...]
Two more steps on the road to the new Michigan economy
August 29, 2006 – 10:23 am
Two announcements this week helped move Michigan forward on the path to leading the country in alternative energy innovation, production, and distribution. Yesterday, Governor Granholm announced $500,000 in grants to convert 1,000 Michigan fuel pumps to bio-diesel or ethanol by 2008. And on Monday the governor announced that The Venture Michigan Fund I has $200 [...]
Moving forward on renewable energy
July 11, 2006 – 11:02 am
Last week, Governor Granholm signed a package of legislation that moves Michigan forward on the path to becoming a global leader for alternative and renewable energy. The legislation reduces the gas tax by 36% on ethanol-based fuel and by 20% on biodiesel, as well as providing incentives for service stations that carry these renewable fuels. [...]
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 [...]
A 7-Point Plan for Michigan’s Future
June 12, 2006 – 11:25 am
On Monday, June 12, we held press conferences in Elmwood Township and Scottville announcing our 7-point to Fight for Michigan’s Future. Twenty other press conferences were held across the state as part of our coordinated campaign to retake the State Legislature. While we have many issues that we will highlight over the course of the [...]
Michigan’s Single Business Tax
March 10, 2006 – 12:06 pm
The debate over Michigan’s Single Business Tax (SBT) is one of the hottest in the state right now, with Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson leading a petition drive to eliminate the SBT in 2007. Yesterday, the State House Tax Policy Committee approved a bill that would do the same thing. Many of the issues [...]
Building a sustainable Michigan
February 3, 2006 – 2:39 pm
Sustainability – the belief that we have a moral responsibility to ensure that today’s actions do nothing to threaten our children’s future – is the thread that ties the issues of this campaign together. As we choose the path to our future, we need to keep the faces of that future – our daughters, our [...]
