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Michigan chemists transform captured carbon into next-gen construction cement
Interesting Engineering - New York
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June 10, 2025
What if tomorrow’s buildings were made from today’s pollution? Michigan researchers are making it happen. A team of researchers led by University of Michigan chemist Charles McCrory has developed a method to capture carbon dioxide and convert it...
Checking in on some former Michigan Football fan favorites
Maize n Brew - Michigan
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June 12, 2025
It’s become a joke and a cliche for fans to take shots at college athletes for going from the gridiron to LinkedIn to find their next career. However, this is a shun that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Most athletes get a free ride, get a shot...
Michigan's air quality problems can become an issue in your vehicle without a clean cabin filter
FOX 2 Detroit - Michigan
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With air quality problems mucking up Michigan's start to summer, there's ways of avoiding the worst of the breathing issues that come with pollutants. That includes in your car, where a single filter is keeping smoke and pollen from your lungs....
Michigan State agrees to pay nearly $30 million to shooting survivors
Bridge Michigan
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June 10, 2025
Statly, who was a junior studying environmental biology and zoology, was shot in the head. This resulted “in profound brain injuries requiring extensive medical treatment and ongoing care,” according to the news release. He will receive $14.25...
Michigan's small businesses influence legislative decisions amid political engagement surge
Great Lakes Wire - Michigan
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June 10, 2025
Over recent months, small business owners in Michigan have been increasingly active in the political process. Their involvement has been particularly noticeable regarding proposals to overhaul Michigan’s Workers’ Compensation system and modify the...
Michigan's Big Banana Car Has a "Little Brother" Across the Globe
98.7 The Grand - Michigan
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June 10, 2025
It's not altogether uncommon to see the Big Banana Car on the roadways of Michigan. The giant banana shaped truck is based in Kalamazoo, though it does tour the country. While the Big Banana Car is a modified truck and seats several, the vehicle...
CuriosiD: Did Detroit automakers sabotage public transit?
WDET - Michigan
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June 12, 2025
WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode of CuriosiD, listener Jennifer Kulczycki of Sterling Heights...
Detroit Lakes plants a food forest as part of urban tree planting efforts
Detroit Lakes Tribune - Minnesota
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June 10, 2025
DETROIT LAKES — As haze settled into the crisp air blanketing Detroit Lakes early Sunday morning, 20 apple, pear and plum trees of various varieties speckled a plot of land in South Shore Park. A handful of volunteers — from the breakfast and noon...
Climate Solutions Week: Local zoning
Interlochen Public Radio - Michigan
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June 10, 2025
It’s NPR’s 2025 Climate Solutions Week. This year’s topic is “Rethinking Home.” NPR will bring us stories from around the country about ways our homes and communities can be more resilient and offer solutions to the changing climate. We here at...
Made in Michigan: Boyer Glassworks offers unique, intricate works of art
The Sault News - Michigan
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Harry Boyer has been honing his craft and creating fragile works of art at his Harbor Springs glassworks studio since 1984. His popular glass pumpkins, birds, vases and other intricately-made pieces adorn homes all over the country. Boyer grew in...
Michigan’s Milestone Real Estate Company expands into commercial sector
REJournals
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June 10, 2025
Trenton, Michigan-based Milestone Real Estate Company, a residential real estate brokerage firm established in 2011, has officially expanded into the commercial real estate sector with a strong start, closing over 324,500 square feet in major...
Detroit's Cass Cafe to reopen this month for art exhibition
The Detroit News - Michigan
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Three years after closing as a restaurant and longstanding community hub, the Cass Cafe will reopen its doors later this month to host a retrospective art exhibit in conjunction with its Cass Corridor neighbors the Detroit Contemporary....
Researchers Transform Carbon Waste Into Valuable Building Material
SciTechDaily
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June 15, 2025
Researchers have developed a method to convert carbon dioxide into metal oxalates, which can be used as cement precursors. This process not only captures CO₂ in solid form but also provides a sustainable alternative to traditional Portland cement....
Michigan plants that can causes rashes, or worse. What to avoid this summer
Detroit Free Press - Michigan
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Toxic and poisonous plants grow in Michigan, including giant hogweed, poison ivy, poison oak, wild parsnip, poison sumac and poison hemlock. Contact with the plants can cause skin irritation, blisters, and other allergic reactions, some of which...
CNN WIRE — Trump EPA proposes repealing major air pollution and emissions limits for power plants
Fairfield County Business Journal - Connecticut
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June 11, 2025
By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap two major federal regulations that limit air pollution and planet-warming emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, the agency’s head announced Wednesday....
MSU’s Tom Izzo Football Building wins 2025 Build Michigan Award
WDIV Local 4 - Michigan
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June 11, 2025
Michigan State University’s Tom Izzo Football Building was selected for a 2025 Build Michigan Award by the Associated General Contractors of Michigan. The Build Michigan Award, presented annually by the Associated General Contractors of Michigan,...
Michigan Democrats propose pollution overhaul package
WEMU - Michigan
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June 10, 2025
Legislative Democrats rolled out bills Monday to toughen Michigan’s pollution cleanup standards and force businesses that caused contamination to foot the bill even if it happened decades ago. A key element would be amending a portion of...
Trump Administration Targets State Climate Laws
National Law Review
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June 11, 2025
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi is expected to release a report any day detailing the Justice Department’s upcoming plans to combat “state overreach,” which is seen as impeding the Trump administration’s energy dominance agenda. What might be...
Proposed Michigan education budget plan would cut millions in direct university funding
WWMT - Michigan
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LANSING, Mich. — Major changes could be on the way for higher education in Michigan, shifting millions away from public universities. It comes from a new budget plan approved in the House Higher Education and Community Colleges budget committee on...
Sherrone Moore Learns Major Update on 2026 CB Target as Big Powerhouse Programs Pose Serious Threat for Michigan
Essentially Sports
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June 12, 2025
Want to know how Michigan Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore treats his players? When it comes to guidance and support, “I try to express that and show that to them, and understand like I have 105 players here who are my kids and I got two girls...