by DTE Social Media Team | Sep 10, 2018 | Your Neighborhood
Disasters happen. The wildfires and hurricanes taking place across the country have been devastating. In the Midwest, Wisconsin recorded 17 tornados and flooding from just one storm system on August 8, 2018. In 2015, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...
by DTE Social Media Team | Sep 10, 2018 | Your Neighborhood
Did you know the Michigan Department of Natural Resources manages 4.6 million acres of public land? That includes state forests, parks, and game areas – possibly some of your most cherished locations in Michigan. With so much land to manage, it’s important the...
by DTE Social Media Team | Aug 31, 2018 | Your Neighborhood
Humans tend to create a lot of trash. In 2015 alone, the amount of mass solid waste (MSW) that Americans generated was a whopping 262.4 million tons, with the average person made 4.4 pounds of waste per day. So where does that trash end up? Sadly, landfills became...
by DTE Social Media Team | Aug 16, 2018 | Your Power
Lighting is important. In fact, it’s so ingrained in our lives we hardly even notice or step back to appreciate it until it’s not there. Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light in 1879 and since then, there have been vast improvements to indoor lighting....
by Brian Corbett | Aug 6, 2018 | Your Neighborhood
Catching the world’s fastest bird wasn’t in the job description when Ryan Wisniewski joined DTE Energy as a summer co-op at the Monroe Power Plant. But he didn’t mind. “Not at all, I enjoy it,” said Wisniewski, who is studying environmental engineering at the...
