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In Michigan, EV adoption is growing but still modest, making up about 4% of all registered vehicles in the state, which is about 310,000 EVs out of 8 million total vehicles on state roads -
Michigan State University researchers say they’ve created new technology, that can cut food and water safety testing time from days to just hours -
Officials warned the bill could strain state services, noting Michigan’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has an error rate above 9% -
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, or EGLE, began accepting comments on the plan earlier this month. The public can submit feedback through August 29 -
As house fires rise nationwide, researchers at Michigan State University are working to make buildings more fire-resistant -
More than 200,000 people in Michigan are expected to be living with dementia this year, up from about 190,000 during the COVID pandemic, according to state data -
An environmental coalition said a sacred Indigenous site in Michigan was quietly paved over to support construction of Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Great Lakes -
The League estimated that more than 3 million Michiganders would lose health coverage, as would tens of millions of people in other states -
As Michigan aims to support 2 million electric vehicles by 2030, the new "Equitable EV Action Plan Framework" could help local leaders with the transition -
A new effort is helping Wisconsin farmers protect water quality in their communities by learning more about how to prevent manure and fertilizer spills and runoff
