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The $50 million grant was advanced by the House Appropriations Committee last week.
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In Gogebic County, on the western end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, towering old-growth evergreens carpet the landscape as it rolls down toward the deep blue of Lake Superior.
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Copper is a key metal for renewable energy, and experts say we’re going to need a lot more of it to transition to clean energy. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is Copper Country. Some see copper mining as an economic boon for the region, but others worry it could come at the cost of some of the Great Lakes’ most pristine wild spaces.
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Opinions are divided over whether the state should help finance a proposed copper mine on the shores of Lake Superior.
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David Exelby was scrolling through Reddit when he came across a mysterious post. This guy had stumbled on a ghost town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The problem was no one could find it. David and producer Max Howard go looking.
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One of the things Flint’s water operators got in trouble for was falsifying records; for saying the city was testing homes at the highest risk of having...
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The history of Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula tends to focus on mining and the mostly European immigrants who worked those mines. That...
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A recent study published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessments finds turtles are getting doses of heavy metals such as lead and copper. Matt...
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Copper. Its use in our lives is astounding, and so is the cost of mining it. When Bill Carter moved to Bisbee, Arizona, he found himself directly...