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Policy Energy Midwest Utilities

Better Utility Regulation: How We Can Get Out Of This Mess

August 16, 2021September 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2021 detroit floods, CFPB, challenge coastal chauvinism, climate change, CMS, coal, Consumers Energy, detroit floods, DTE, DTE Energy, EIA, energy information administration, energy waste reduction, EWR, extreme weather, investor-owned utilities, IOU, IOUs, maryland, michigan utility regulation, MPSC, municipalization, on-bill financing, PG&E, rainfall, Regulation, regulatory innovation, rulemaking process, SAIDI, SAIDI-MED, SAIFI, SNAP!, utilities

Too much regulation restricts innovation. But too little regulation does the same, and this is what we see in the crumbling infrastructure of Michigan, where regulators are asleep at the wheel in the name of a “business-friendly regulatory” environment that, as it turns out, is neither terribly regulatory nor terribly business-friendly.

Real Estate Policy Urban Planning Law

The Morouns Tore Down A Warehouse For More Truck Parking. Really. [EDITED]

July 9, 2021July 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments BSEED, building department, city of detroit, city of detroit government, climate change, corktown, criminal negligence, david bell, Detroit, drainage, drainage assessment, duggan, duggan administration, enforcement, flooding, hardscaping, impervious surfaces, industrial slumlords, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, mike duggan, moroun, moroun clan, moroun empire, municipal incompetence, pervious surfaces, rain tax, Regulation, slumlords, southwest detroit, southwest solutions, ted bundy, west side industrial

Walking from home to Corktown last night in search of food and drink with some out-of-town visitors who were eager

Business & Economics Culture & Language Environment

100 Corporations Produce 71% of Carbon Emissions. But Who Buys Their Products?

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments air quality, air quality index, ambassador bridge, aqi, car inspections, car ownership, carbon, carbon footprint, cars, climate change, conservation, consumption, energy waste reduction, exxonmobil, garbage, incinerator, mobility justice, mobility poverty, MPSC, municipal solid waste, pollution, recycling, recycling bin, refuse, Regulation, resources, saudi aramco, single-stream recycling, solid waste, transportation justice, transportation poverty, trash, vehicles, waste

LIVING IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT, A STONE’S THROW FROM THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, I AM ACCUSTOMED to having to wipe off the

Book Review: “Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street”

December 28, 2020December 25, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments eileen appelbaum, ERISA, financial regulation, general partner, internal rate of return, investing, investment, investor protections, limited partner, main street, market rate, partnership, private equity, private equity at work, Regulation, regulatory, rosemary batt, SEC, securities, securities regulation, wall street, WARN, when wall street manages main street, worker protections

Over 400 pages of flowing prose, Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt give us a compelling and exhaustive take on one

Energy Efficiency Policy Energy

Detroit’s Green Task Force Looks Toward Benchmarking, PACE, Energy Codes

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2030 district, bali kumar, ben dueweke, bob bedzyk, city of detroit sustainability office, connie lilley, detroit city council, detroit council, detroit public schools, ecologic institute, EcoWorks, elise matz, energy, energy benchmarking, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy waste reduction, energystar, Joel Howrani-Heeres, josh musicant, kendal kuneman, latia leonard, max gruenig, michal helman, michigan public service commission, POCACITO, policy, randy hargraves, Regulation, scott benson, utilities, utility policy, walker-miller, walker-miller energy services

The Energy Waste Reduction Committee of the Detroit Green Task Force met yesterday morning to talk shop for the last

Ode on Michigan’s Business-Friendly Regulatory Environment

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments air quality, ambassador bridge, aqi, environmental regulation, hubbard farms, marathon refinery, matty moroun, mexicantown, policy, Regulation, southwest detroit, US Steel, Zug Island

One day, I’d like to sit on my front steps with a cup of coffee, breathe deeply, and not catch

Fall Into Detroit Flavor

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments air pollution, Detroit, fall, marathon refinery, michigan, particulate emissions, petcoke, pollution, recipes, Regulation, rouge river, Zug Island

(Satire, in case it isn’t apparent.) A new season is upon us, so, naturally, our top talent at the Handbuilt

Environmental Justice Environment

Environment, Epidemiology, and Economy

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments BASF, Cancer clusters, Cancer epidemiology, Ciba-Geigy, Dow, Dye manufacturing, Environmental contamination, Epidemiology, New Jersey, Novartis, Regulation, Superfund, Toms River, Toxic waste, Union Carbide

Just in time for Earth Day, I just finished Dan Fagin’s 2013 book, Tom’s River: A Story of Science and

Cities & Urban Planning Construction Affordable housing Housing

Detroit: Proposed Crackdown on Slumlords

May 25, 2017May 25, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments building code, dennis kefallinos, energy code, evictions, landlords, Regulation, rental property, renters, slumlords, tenants rights

The Duggan Administration just announced a proposed ordinance that would crack down on slumlords by forcing their properties into compliance