With Michigan receiving more federal funding for home heating assistance, utility companies are also chipping in to help people stay warm this winter, as gas prices rise. Consumers Energy, the state s largest utility, is committing $4.5 million in the next year, including $1 million for the winter and $3.5 million for a pilot program to assist their most vulnerable customers. And Detroit-based DTE Energy is donating $5 million to agencies helping people keep up with their bills. .
An Iowa company is trying to gain support for a multi-state project involving capturing carbon from ethanol plants and moving it underground for storage. In the public debate, advocates for tribal communities say their voices should not be ignored. Summit Carbon Solutions wants to construct a pipeline through five states, including Iowa, before the carbon dioxide is stored underground in North Dakota. .
As Pennsylvanians move into winter, the state s top utility agency offers some tips on keeping bills down during the peak energy-use season. Three main factors contribute to heating costs: the amount of energy used, its price, and the weather. Nils Hagen-Frederiksen, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, said one way to manage costs is to shop for competitive electric and natural gas suppliers. .
The clean-energy future needs to start now, according to some Montanans fighting to change the direction of the state s largest utility. Nearly 1,000 customers signed a letter to NorthWestern Energy CEO Bob Rowe, urging him to invest in renewables. Anne Hedges, director of policy and legislative affairs at the Montana Environmental Information Center, said there is growing discontent with the company in the wake of its decision to build a methane-gas power plant in Laurel, near Billings, and its resource procurement plan for the next two decades, which does not include renewable energy. .
there may be negative aspects of certain things of people getting across borders the way they should not. immigration is something we need more of and to do better with. let me say it strongly, we could not be silicon valley without immigration or the power house, being the tip of the spear of the global economy without immigration. half of the huge companies in silicon valley were founded by at least one immigrants. think about that. we can certainly support a growth of h-1 b. president obama proposed last year of 85,000 to 110,000 of h-1 b. 200,000 applications are made in the first week. it is very, very over demanded and under supply resource and we should increase the capital