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This Historic Ship Runs on Coal. Can It Find a New Way Forward?
-Owners of the S.S. Badger, one of the last coal-fired ships in the world, are trying to decarbonize. They recently received government funding that would help.
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Points North: The Last to Leave
-A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by the emerald ash borer. But in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this be the key to saving ash from extinction?
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Traverse City lawyer gets national recognition for making economic arguments against coal
-Chris Bzdok has argued to state regulators that utility customers shouldn’t have to pay for coal infrastructure, because the investment isn’t worth it in the long run.
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Retirements by water and wastewater plant operators are leading to workforce shortages
-Baby boomers are part of a “silver tsunami” of retirements sweeping across the nation’s drinking water and wastewater systems.
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Who is working to preserve and restore wetlands in Metro Detroit?
-Most Michigan wetlands have been destroyed, even as climate change means we need their benefits. Here’s how groups are working to change that.
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Points North: Labor of Mixed Emotions
-For more than 20 years, Nic Theisen has spent his days on his hands and knees in the dirt farming. It’s a tough way to make a living, and for years Nic didn’t always know if the farm would make it. Until something big changed.
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Michigan’s ambitious clean energy laws face a peninsula-sized hurdle
-Natural gas power plants put in place just five years ago to replace coal in the state’s Upper Peninsula are now a conundrum for regulators.