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Michigan's requirement that a certain amount of the Lower Peninsula's electricity must be generated within the borders of the Lower Peninsula violates the U.S. Commerce Clause and can't be enforced, a U.S. appellate court ruled Thursday.

Republican legislators are up in arms about the Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) proposal to lease 420 acres of Otsego County land for a solar energy farm.

State and federal government representatives were at the site of the former Palisades Nuclear Plant Monday to announce a $1.52 billion Department of Energy (DOE) loan and a $1.3 billion federal grant to accomplish the historic task of restarting the first shuttered nuclear facility.

The Wolverine Power Cooperative is receiving a share of a $7.3 billion federal grant so it can provide even lower electricity costs once the Palisades Nuclear Plant is back up and running, the White House announced on Thursday.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm described the country as amid a "building boom," touting to union pipefitters and plumbers on Wednesday how federal construction tax credits incentivize tapping into union contractors and apprenticeship programs.