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The ruling will eliminate tipped wages below minimum wage and raise the state’s minimum wage to more than $12 per hour

Tags: Food News, Labor, Restaurants, Michigan minimum wage, Michigan restaurant industry, Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association

Opponents argue the aging pipeline, running through the Straits of Mackinac, poses a catastrophic environmental risk if a spill occurs

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Line 5, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Oil and Water Don’t Mix

Through the A2ZERO initiative, Ann Arbor has launched Michigan’s first energy disclosure ordinances, and installed the state’s first utility-pole EV chargers

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Government, Ann Arbor, climate change in Michigan, carbon neutrality in Michigan

Line 5 has been deemed North America’s riskiest crude oil pipeline

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Nature, Line 5, Enbridge Energy, Great Lakes, Canada

The facility’s new permit now includes a thermal limit for the first time

Tags: Michigan, Environment, News, Fermi 2, DTE Energy

The Center for American Women and Politics said men’s campaign donations are outpacing those from women and it could be limiting women’s voices and influence in the political arena

Tags: Politics & Elections, 2024 Election, News, Michigan politics, Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Legislature

Workers held a picket outside University Hospital to protest what they say is U of M’s ongoing refusal to agree to what they call fair contracts that would address issues of understaffing and low pay

Tags: Michigan, Labor, Education, University of Michigan, organized labor in Michigan, SEIU

The “Michigan Achievement Scholarship, Community College Guarantee” was signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in July

Tags: Michigan, Education, Government, Gretchen Whitmer, Sixty by 30, college education in Michigan, community college in Michigan

Our landfills emit enough methane to equal 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, resulting in more waste per capita than any other state

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Government, climate change in Michigan, pollution in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced an additional $120 million in grant funding to help tribal communities around the country prepare for climate-related threats

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Government, Indigenous tribes in Michigan, climate change in Michigan, electric vehicles in Michigan

The nonprofit group Oil & Water Don’t Mix calls on “the Biden administration to take a stand in support of its own climate policy by rejecting the tunnel”

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Government, Line 5, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Joe Biden