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A legislative committee meeting heard from utilities and regulators as they try to work out what can be done to increase reliability of electric service.
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A few weeks ago, more than a 700,000 customers of DTE and Consumers Energy faces outages. Power may be back on, but the consequences are lingering.
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Wayne County declares an emergency at the county juvenile detention center. A zoo in Grand Rapids looks to help repopulate a midwest butterfly. Finally, learning about Ann Arbor’s hopes to move to municipal power.
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Last week, state House members grilled DTE and Consumers Energy officials about the outages. This week, it's the Senate's turn
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Michigan’s largest utility companies faced questioning from state lawmakers Wednesday over recent widespread blackouts.
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Today, we broke down how DTE cut its operations budget just months before the ice storm. Then, we heard about why Michigan may soon become a haven for those fleeing the effects of climate change elsewhere. Plus, why EVs pay less in road use taxes, and we ended by revisiting our conversation with Mattawan-based debut novelist Maria Dong
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State regulators want to hear from frustrated Michigan residents who lost electricity during recent storms across the Lower Peninsula. The Michigan Public Service Commission sets rates and other policies affecting utilities.
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Today on the show, Bridge Michigan analyzes the share of legislators receiving campaign contributions from DTE and Consumer's Energy.
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Recent outages affected hundreds of thousands of Michiganders. One Washtenaw County commissioner says utility companies have too much influence over state politicians.
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Today, what role oversight plays in the reliability of the grid and how elected officials are responding to more frequent outages. Then, we checked in on a hazardous waste dump in Van Buren Township, and its connection to toxic waste from the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Plus, a look at a new comic centering the stories of Black queer icons.