Stay strong, Congressman Upton. The EPA’s overreach knows no bounds.
According to Politico, Chairman of the Energy Committee, Michigan Congressman Fred Upton is working with Inhofe and Whitfield to fight a court case with American Energy.
The lawmakers urged the judges to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed states and environmental groups to [...]
If the Snyder Administration is successful in his appeal of the decision in Ottawa County regarding the James DeYoung power plant in Holland, it may well be the end of the Republican Party in Michigan.
And here we were off to such a great start…
Do you know what you should do? Talk to Sarah Palin. Palin knows a lot about energy, it is one of her signature issues. Oh, and I was just joking about crying earlier, don’t cry. Sarah wouldn’t cry.
First of all, I want to heap lavish praise on Governor-elect Rick Snyder for splitting the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality. In my view, when the state legislature approved the combination of the DNR with the DEQ, it bottle-necked the permit process and lent to the nearly 1,000 day wait [...]
The State of Michigan is headed for an Energy Crisis, and the Democrat Party is mostly to blame.
According to a press release from Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office, the state’s decision is based on findings of the Michigan Public Service Commission, which said the company failed to demonstrate the [...]
That means that Northern Michigan will continue to have to buy electricity from downstate and other states to meet the energy requirements it currently has, as the electric co-ops have been doing, and for the foreseeable future.
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Right now, Wolverine is still waiting to hear from the MDNRE on whether it will receive an air quality permit, despite Jennifer Granholm’s claim that the issuance of a permit has nothing whatsoever to do with politics.
The beginning of the coal plant saga was May 2006. In a few months, we will have been [...]
She isn’t a Democrat, she thinks of herself more as a QUEEN.
People around town are asking, “What is going on with the air permit?” The only logical answer is that Jennifer Granholm wants Wolverine’s air permit put on hold until the EPA comes out with a plan to implement what the legislature tried to [...]
Tom Karas says quit “whining” while he kills our children’s future.
A couple of weeks back, I noticed that Tom Karas, an out-of town environmentalist, was planning to show up at the Presque Isle Electric and Gas Co-op annual meeting to formally demand a complete [...]
The Sierra Club’s Theatrics
Reacting to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wolverine asked for an additional hearing to change the way that emissions are measured. The EPA changed the way emissions are measured in the Clean Air Act of 2008, and that standard [...]





