by Bill Blaul | Oct 3, 2018 | Energy Future, Planet
Last year DTE Energy made an industry-leading commitment to reduce carbon emissions by more than 80 percent by 2050, largely by decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from its coal-fired electric generation plants. The company is now emerging as an industry leader in...
by Bill Blaul | Oct 3, 2018 | Blue Water Energy Center, Planet, Your Neighborhood
In August, a construction team at DTE Energy’s Blue Water Energy Center in St. Clair County was preparing to clear refuse inside an unused, fenced yard on the 30-acre site when they spotted a honeybee hive hidden amid steel plates, timber, pipes, and brush. “I...
by Bill Blaul | Aug 29, 2018 | Energy Future, Environment, Planet
Getting kids to focus can be tough. Getting them outdoors can be a chore. But tell them their classroom for a day will be on a sailboat on Lake Michigan and odds are good they’ll be aboard. The Suttons Bay-based Inland Seas Education Association has successfully...
by Cindy Hecht | Aug 10, 2018 | Energy Future, Planet, Your Power
Wind energy is helping Michigan’s rural communities thrive. When a community hosts a wind project, everyone who lives there wins. Farmers still have most of their land available for planting, and the extra income from lease payments provides some added security,...
by Bill Blaul | Jul 19, 2018 | Planet, Your Neighborhood
Few things degrade our public lands more than illegal dumping. But few things are more inspiring than volunteers enduring swarms of bugs, pungent muck, and sweltering heat to clean up eyesores despoiling the environment and threatening public health. In June, a team...
by Bill Blaul | Jun 12, 2018 | Environment, Our People, Planet
Several DTE Midstream employee volunteers with support from the DTE Energy Foundation recently helped to clean up a ravine in northeast Pennsylvania littered with illegally dumped tires. Dozens of ravines, streams, and backroad areas in rural Susquehanna County have...
