When Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed off on expansive recycling reforms in December 2022, she also approved a last-minute amendment allowing chemical recycling – a process decried by many environmentalists – to be classified as a legal manufacturing process.
Legislation introduced this week would require utilities to provide rebates to customers who install rooftop solar and/or energy storage systems and create a program that would compensate businesses and homeowners for providing generated and stored energy to the grid.
A Senate panel on Thursday reported bills to expand Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy rulemaking authority and to create the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office in the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, respectively.
The state's environmental agency would be able to, for the first time since 2006, make administrative rules related to water resources protection under a bill before a Senate committee on Thursday.
Prisoner health care access and transforming the Thumb Correctional Facility into a Department of Corrections educational campus for inmate reentry programs were among the top recommendations for state's prison system in the governor's budget recommendations released Wednesday.
Dramatically amended legislation that would create a state clean energy mandate cleared a Senate panel Wednesday with at least one of the state's major utilities moving from opposed to neutral on the legislation.
Nine bills in the Legislature's effort to reform the juvenile justice system based on recommendations from the Juvenile Justice Task Force passed the Senate on Thursday.
Updated reporting requirements for charter boat operators and wholesale fish dealers were given a thumbs-up Thursday in the Senate over objections from a Republican who sought to amend the bill.
Senators on Thursday reported legislation that would temporarily prohibit gun possession for those convicted domestic violence offenses following a lengthy committee debate over the content of the bill and what constitutes domestic violence.
Senate Energy and Environment Committee Chair Sen. Sean McCann said Tuesday that negotiations on a bill package to enact a state renewable energy mandate are ongoing but was unsure on the timeline for movement.