Michigan Potash officials cite the potential for 200 permanent jobs at the mine, along with about 1,400 jobs during construction. The mine would triple the county's industrial tax base ...

Decades of coal ash left behind at Consumers Energy’s J.H. Campbell Generating Complex on the shores of Lake Michigan will be repurposed into a cement replacement used in concrete manufacturing ...

A Michigan power provider wants to charge customers for pricey electricity from some of the nation’s oldest coal-fired power plants, run by a separate firm whose largest shareholder happens to ...

Coal is not coming back,” says Mark Barteau, director of the University of Michigan Energy Institute. “It’s going to continue to lose to cheap natural gas.” Nor do open mines necessarily ...

Andy Knott, Beyond Coal campaign central region director for the Sierra Club, said the rule could help persuade Michigan’s power companies to speed up their conversion to renewable energy sources.

A coal mine where an underground fire last week prompted reported mine worker evacuations had a long history of safety and health violations leading up to the blaze. More than 1,100 federal safety and ...