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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The wet and windy Friday afternoon in April wasn’t ideal for a groundbreaking ceremony. But Buckley Mayor Takis Pifer was all smiles. “How big of a deal is natural gas? It’s huge,” he said. DTE Energy is planning […] The post A new natural gas project comes to northern Michigan, amid climate concerns appeared first on Michigan Advance.

DTE Energy is planning to lay down about 20 miles of pipeline to get natural gas to residents and businesses around the villages of Mesick and Buckley.

Utility and local officials in Wexford County are celebrating the project as an alternative to burning wood and propane for heat, but environmental groups are criticizing the plan.

In a push to advance Michigan’s clean energy industry and bring Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s MI Healthy Climate Plan into state law, majority Democrats in the House and Senate have advanced bills …

Clean energy advocates are still working with the legislature to eliminate the cap altogether.