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Wolverine Power Cooperative will receive hundreds of millions of dollars of federal grant money, announced Thursday, to purchase nuclear power from the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant near South Haven, once it reopens. Wolverine is the sole supplier of power to northern Michigan’s Cherryland Electric, Great Lakes Energy, and Presque Isle Electric & Gas.

The Michigan Climate Action Network says it will join challenges to a permit approved last December by the state public service commission.

The University of Michigan Biological Station at Pellston has tracked the lake’s ice cover for more than 90 years — and guessed at its annual disappearance since 1988.

Michigan's new law sets a goal for the state to generate 100 percent of its energy from renewable resources by 2040, and gives the state more power in approving wind and solar projects.

Clean energy officials met at Bay College in Escanaba yesterday to talk about funding and education opportunities for public schools.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s notice to shut down Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac by May won’t prompt some of the changes many environmental groups hoped…

Grand Traverse Bay and inland lakes across Michigan, like Lake Leelanau and Torch Lake, will be ice-free by the end of the century if carbon emissions…

When driving even a short distance through northern Michigan in the winter, the weather can feel contradictory. Keith Berger, the Observing Programs…

Climate change is likely to bring more extreme rainfall and flooding to Michigan, so flood risk in the next 100 years will probably look very different…