power outages

Some Michigan House lawmakers are responding to this winter’s widespread blackouts with a new task force.

The Michigan Public Service Commission has taken a step toward holding power companies financially responsible for unreliable service.

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.

Today, we got caught up on the recent public hearings on power outages. Then, how a poem by a Michigan poet will be launched to the moon. We also heard about a Petoskey perfusionist, whose job is to keep patients' hearts pumping during surgery. Plus, a conversation about emotional labor — what it is, and why we desperately need more of it.

Last week, state House members grilled DTE and Consumers Energy officials about the outages. This week, it's the Senate's turn

Michigan’s largest utility companies faced questioning from state lawmakers Wednesday over recent widespread blackouts.

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

Michigan utilities were still working on restoring service interrupted by the last two storms when another storm Friday knocked out power to more than 200,000 people.

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.