Until May 2025, utility executives like those at Consumers Energy in Michigan operated in the world of orderly oversight of electricity generation.

In coordination with MISO, the regional transmission agency, and the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC), Consumers Energy decided when to build new power plants to meet energy demand. When plants grew old and to...

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By Annie MacKeigan, The Water Desk

Call it the winter that wasn’t.

Throughout Colorado a record-warm and dry winter has come to a close. Attention now pivots to spring and the potential for additional snow to allay increasing drought concerns. Though, there appears to be little relief in sight. 

The Denver-metro area went mont...

The practice of reporting on the environment starts with a working knowledge of a range of scientific disciplines. One of them is chemistry.

To wit: since the 1960s, when Americans and visionary lawmakers voted to hold polluters accountable for their wastes, a specific chemical pollutant has emerged in each decade as the leading environmental and public health men...

Consumers Energy is looking to delay hundreds of millions of dollars in planned safety upgrades at the largest dam in Michigan while it seeks approval of a hotly-debated plan to sell the facility and 12 others.

In a