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Joyce Harvey delves into the history of the Economy Store

Michigan State University has been recognized for the third consecutive year as one of the nation’s top green colleges in the 2022 Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges.

When there's heavy rain, water doesn’t always have much time to soak into the ground. It can then flow into lakes and rivers, carrying pollutants with it.

Grand Rapids Business Journal Public-private effort is intended to spark ‘recycling and recovery’ economy with $97M investment, including $4.9M in grants. Courtesy Schupan Recycling Leaders of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and several public and private stakeholders convened in April to unveil a collaborative effort to spark a “recycling and recovery” economy in the state. In a virtual presentation April 19, EGLE joined with the Michigan Chamber o...

Powering campus with renewable energy MSUs solar carport is the largest solar carport in North America. MSU continues to make progress toward its renewable energy (11.3%) and greenhouse gas reduction goals (nearly 30% reduction) established in the university’s Energy Transition Plan. MSU’s use of more than 17 million kWh of green energy is the equivalent to the electricity use of nearly 2,000 average American homes annually.  The installation of North America’s largest solar carport on...

Maryland sues waste management company for $2.1M over river pollution The state claims Columbia-based Ecology Services Inc. operated without a permit and violated a stormwater discharge agreement for a site in Pasadena. As reported by the Capital Gazette, the state of Maryland has sued a Columbia-based Ecology Services Inc. for an estimated $2.1 million on claims that the company operated without a permit for most of last year and violated a stormwater discharge agreement at a site in Pasadena...

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SOM EGLE, Michigan Chamber of Commerce and more than 30 partners join with bipartisan lawmakers to announce NextCycle Michigan EGLE, Michigan Chamber of Commerce and more than 30 partners join with bipartisan lawmakers to announce NextCycle Michigan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Largest collaborative effort in state history to spark recycling and recovery economy Leaders of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) joined today with the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, bipa...

The Chinook touched down, conjuring a cloud of swirling sand and dust around it. U.S. Army Lieutenant Nate Bethea ran from its rear bay with his head down and immediately took cover flat against the ground as small arms fire popped from the village around him. It was July 2009, and Bethea was part of an airborne unit searching for Private Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who had walked off an outpost in Afghanistan and been captured by Taliban insurgents.  Bethea was leading a group of soldi...

Bangor Area Businesses That Your Kids May Have Never Heard Of So, what Bangor area businesses do you miss the most? Thats the question that we recently put out there at I95Rocks on Facebook, and man, did we get a response. It didnt take much to jog someones memory who has lived in this neck of the woods for some time. Memories of that restaurant that used to serve up your favorite dish, or that business where you purchased books or those vinyl record albums that you still may have either down i...