NREL Prizes for Energy Innovation
The Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are teaming up to produce a series of competitive prize programs to facilitate innovation in energy and decarbonization.
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Policy
Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including The YIMBY Movement
Keep Austin weird? Or, “keep Austin’s built environment thoroughly eclectic and its infrastructure slightly dysfunctional”? Lessons from the first YIMBYTown conference in the Lone Star State.
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Drew Dilkens: “We Must Preserve Single Family Zoning At All Costs!”
Windsor, Ontario is fighting the federal government’s housing plan in order to “protect the character of the neighborhood.”
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Hubbard Farms Signs On To Lawsuit Against Zug Island Concrete Plant
When news broke last fall that Governor Whitmer’s administration had cherry-picked air quality data to justify the granting of a
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The GOP Released Their Policy Blueprint For 2025. It’s A Mess.
The Republican Party has drafted its “policy” plans for 2025, when they at this point seem unlikely to be able to retake the White House. While there are some valuable points in critiquing the structure of the federal regulatory apparatus, most of the over-arching objectives include dismantling federal agencies and applying theocratic and corporatist dogma to American public policy.
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Vape eWaste Recycling: Showing The Business Math
The question I’ve gotten a lot in the process of planning this eWaste recycling program is, of course, “how much
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Vape Recycling: Handbuilt Lobbies State Senators To Regulate eWaste
Michiganders throw out hundreds of thousands of vapes each year, if not more. This is an environmental disaster, but one we can mitigate with better eWaste recycling.
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“The Old And The Wealthy Will Help Us Grow The State!” – Gretchen Whitmer
The Governor’s office released its list of members of a new state board aimed at reversing population loss in the MItten. The board is generally very wealthy and very old.
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SCOTUS Uses 14th Amendment To Kill Affirmative Action. What’s Next?
Affirmative action is officially dead, and the well-meaning liberal spin machine has already kicked into high gear to complain about how this signals the demise of racial justice in America. Thankfully, it’s far more complicated than that, and there are probably better solutions for us out there.
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Michigan SB 271: Not-So-Lofty Goals Face Off Against Fossil Fuels
Michigan’s Senate is currently working on an energy bill that would require utilities to adopt a 100% renewable portfolio standard by 2035. It’s a good start, but there are a few holes that need to be plugged.
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