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MARQUETTE To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Transportation and select Michigan airports, are piloting a Travel Points Testing program this spring.
The goal is to bring antigen COVID-19 testing to locations with high volumes of travel, the State Emergency Operations Center reported.
Quick and cost-free testing will be offered at several Michigan Welcome Centers and airports throughout the state, with results available in as little as 15 minutes. Walk-ups are taken as space allows, and an option to register online via a mobile device will also be available.
MARQUETTE, MI Environmentalists and others are asking Northern Michigan University President Fritz Erickson to commit to making campus carbon neutral by 2050.
Professor Ryan Stock wrote an open letter outlining the threats climate change poses and asked Erickson to also sign the Global Universities and Colleges Climate Letter to make the commitment public. Stock’s letter was signed by more than 1,000 people from the campus community.
NMU climate advocate John O’Bryan says Northern could achieve carbon neutrality by substituting the burning of fossil fuels with reliance on its biomass steam plant and other technologies.
“Combining the biomass burning, which is carbon neutral, with carbon capture technology, to actually sequester those carbon emissions into geological formations… that could potentially result in a net-negative source of emissions,” he says.