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Executive Order Puts Oldest Polluting Coal Plants Back in Action
A Detroit Edison worker guides the unloading boom of the freighter Walter J. McCarthy, Jr. to a coal chute at the Monroe power plant in Monroe, Michigan, in this image from 1997. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue
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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 […]
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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 […]
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