Category: Climate change
Stateside: Friday, May 1, 2026
Why are Michigan’s gas prices so high? Plus, how MSU is developing new potato varieties for potato chips. And, diving into Lake Huron with the first episode of Beyond the Shore.
Electric Fire Trucks Are Spreading, But They Lag Buses, Garbage Trucks, & Drayage Fleets
Vancouver has an electric fire truck. I’ve even seen it. That still sounds like a line from a pilot project brochure, but the truck is real, it is in service, and it is part of the city’s municipal fleet. I had also been looking at electric garbage trucks recently, another … [continued]
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Is Michigan’s 10-cent bottle deposit worth it?
Is it really worth our time to haul returnables to the store for just 10 cents each? And is it worth it for Michigan’s recycling industry to maintain a bottle deposit system when we already have curbside recycling?
Beyond the Shore: The hidden shipwrecks of Lake Huron
This is the first of five stories about the Great Lakes: one story per lake, a snapshot that tells a story about each of the lakes, a little microcosm of what makes each lake unique. In this episode, we discover why Lake Huron is so good at preserving history in the form of shipwrecks.
In Colombia, 57 Nations Chart A Path To A Future Without Fossil Fuels
The fossil fuel transition moved forward this week at a conference in Colombia that brought nations in search of solutions together.
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