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In a petition to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the coalition claims the pipeline is a threat to the human rights of front line Indigenous communities and to the environment

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Line 5, Great Lakes, Indigenous people in Michigan, Great Lakes, Enbridge Energy

Experts say the move will bring major health improvements to Michigan and other Midwestern states

Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Michigan, coal, Environmental Protection Agency in Michigan, Consumers, DTE Energy, Michigan energy companies

In Michigan, about 12.3% of active apprentices are people of color

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Michigan labor, apprenticeships in Michigan, Black workers in Michigan

Wayne State University has developed a program to help students who left with debt and no diploma come back and finish what they started

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Education, Wayne State University, Warrior Way Back, college programs in Detroit

Federal engineers said they need the extra time to study the massive volume of public comments

Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Line 5, Enbridge, Great Lakes

Current regulations allow foreign-raised livestock to use that designation, putting producers in Michigan and across the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage

Tags: Food News, Eats, USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Product of USA, Michigan agriculture

Some public-housing policies work against people who once were convicted of using marijuana

Tags: Cannabis News, News, Weed, Prison Policy Initiative, housing discrimination in Michigan, cannabis in Michigan, public housing in Michigan

The tribe sees operating a power utility as a way to exercise its independence

Tags: Michigan News, News, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Bureau of Indian Affairs, energy in Michigan

It was the second time two MSU students have lived through a school shooting

Tags: Michigan News, News, MSU, Michigan State University, MSU shooting, gun violence in Michigan, school shooting

A panic over a ban led Michigan’s Huizenga to propose a ‘S.T.O.V.E. Act,’ but experts warn gas stoves contribute to air pollution

Tags: Michigan News, News, gas stoves, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, air pollution

Road construction is funded by a tax on gasoline and diesel — a problem as more electric vehicles take to the road

Tags: Michigan News, Car culture, EVs, electric vehicles, Michigan, cars, highways

Among large American cities, Detroit has the highest rate of preterm births

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, Environment, Wayne State University, National Institutes of Health, preterm births, Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research, environmental racism

Michigan has a long history of union activism, but the movement has fallen on hard times in recent years

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, NLRB, National Labor Relations Board, unions, labor, Michigan

While relatively new to American farms, silvopasture is actually one of the oldest land-use practices in human history

Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Michigan, farmers, silvopasture, climate change, Michigan State University, agriculture

A break in Line 5 could cause as much or more damage as the incident on the Kansas-Nebraska border

Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Line 5, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Michigan, Canada, oil

Federal licenses to operate dams owned by Consumers Energy are set to expire in 2034

Tags: Michigan News, Environment, dams, Consumers Energy, Michigan

An AARP study of Michigan drug prices found respondents have not filled prescriptions because it was too expensive

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, health care, drugs, Michigan, AARP

The initial 2021 expansion helped bring thousands of Michigan families and their kids out of poverty during the pandemic

Tags: Michigan News, Politics & Elections, Michigan, Child Tax Credit, Republicans, Democrats, pandemic

The utility claims it is on track to reach zero emissions by the deadline, but its own data shows it plans to use significant amounts of natural gas beyond 2050

Tags: Michigan News, Environment, DTE Energy, Detroit, Michigan

A program in the Kalamazoo Public Schools is aimed at putting students on an alternative track toward well-paying jobs which do not require traditional degrees

Tags: Michigan News, Education, Labor, Career Launch Kalamazoo, Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship, Kalamazoo, Michigan