Michigan Environmental Report

The Michigan Environmental Council has awarded Detroit RiverFront Conservancy President Faye Alexander Nelson the state’s highest environmental award, the Helen and William Milliken Distinguished Service Award, for her work on the Detroit RiverWalk project. Detroit community activist Margaret Weber earned MEC’s award for grassroots work, the Petoskey Prize for Environmental Leadership.

Living in America’s largest city without curbside recycling, Margaret Weber just wanted to do her little part. That, she has.

More than 50,000 barrels of oil per day continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico as of this writing (the range of estimates run from a low of British Petroleum‘s 5,000 barrels per day to a high of 100,000 barrels per day). By any measure, it is destined to surpass the Exxon Valdez accident as the largest and worst oil spill in our nation’s history.

Michigan residents and businesses will be spared astronomical rate increases after the denial of a permit for the Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative’s proposed new 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Rogers City.