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Opinion | Why Electricity Blackouts Are Coming to Michigan
Midland, Mich.
No matter hopes individuals may need had for saving Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Producing Station, it’s too late. On Might 20, the plant shut down, taking with it 6.5% of the state’s electrical energy and 15% of the state’s clear vitality. This leaves Michiganders with much less dependable electrical energy and better costs.
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Climate Justice Challenge sets aside $11M for fighting climate change in Michigan
MICHIGAN (WLUC) – A new program will help Michigan organizations apply for environmental grants.
The Climate Justice Challenge sets aside up to $11 million to help communities apply for federal funding from the Environmental Protection Agency.
If successful, community organizations could see $10 to $12 million in EPA funding.
Governor Whitmer’s chief infrastructure officer said the program allows Michiganders to take the lead in fighting climate change.
“As Michiganders living our lives every day, the opportunity is to not only meet our own climate goals, but to lead the world and help export our technology and create jobs right here in our home,” Chief Infrastructure Officer Zach Kolodin said.
Applications close July 1.
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President Joe Biden returns to Michigan ahead of NAACP speech
President Joe Biden has landed back in Michigan, where he’ll campaign in Detroit and deliver a Sunday keynote address at an annual NAACP dinner.
Biden, a Democrat who’s being challenged by Republican former President Donald Trump in the November election, is spending much of the day reaching out to Black voters. On Sunday morning, before traveling to Michigan, he delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College, a historically Black college in Atlanta.
Air Force One landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport at about 1:10 p.m. Biden was greeted on the tarmac by a group that featured Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, state House Speaker Joe Tate, D-Detroit, and U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Detroit.
On Sunday night, Biden is scheduled to speak at the NAACP Detroit Branch’s 69th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner at the Huntington Place convention center. In an interview last week, the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the NAACP Detroit Branch, said he believes Biden recognizes the significance of Detroit.
“Anybody, any party, whether you are a Democrat, Republican or independent needs to not take for granted the African American community,” Anthony said.
Black voters helped Biden win the Democratic nomination and the general election in 2020.
He scored 240,936 votes in Detroit on Election Day in 2020, defeating Trump in Michigan’s largest city, 94%-5%. About 78% of Detroit’s population is Black, according to U.S. Census data. Despite there being no proof of systemic voter fraud in Detroit, in the days after the 2020 election, Trump labeled Detroit “totally corrupt” and said there had been an improper dump of votes there.
Some Democrats are concerned that voters in Detroit won’t turn out for Biden the same way this fall in a rematch with Trump, potentially providing a path for the Republican to flip Michigan.
In a statement, Janiyah Thomas, the Trump campaign’s Black media coordinator, said Biden was “on a pandering tour because he knows what we all know: without the Black vote, there is no Democrat Party.”
“Today, Black voters can see through what Joe Biden is trying to sell because they know, like all Americans, that inflation is eating away at wages, the border is in chaos, and in big blue cities, Black children are trapped in unsafe neighborhoods and failing schools,” Thomas said.
Sunday’s visit marks Biden’s third campaign stop in Michigan of 2024. He met with supporters in Saginaw County in March, and he spoke at a United Auto Workers hall in Macomb County in February.
Biden defeated Trump by about 154,000 votes in Michigan in 2020, 51%-48%.
cmauger@detroitnews.com
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