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DBusiness Daily Update: State Announces $1.8M in Grants for EV Charging Stations, Ann Arbor Kroger Store Finishes $3.5M Renovation, and More
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Our roundup of the latest news from metro Detroit and Michigan businesses as well as announcements from government agencies, including updates about the COVID-19 pandemic. To share a business or nonprofit story, please send us a message.
Whitmer
Gov. Whitmer Announces Grants for 88 Electric Vehicle Charging Sites to Expand Statewide Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LANSING, Mich. Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced thirty-two locations across Michigan have been approved as part of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy s Charge Up grants totaling $1,868,681.13 to install fast charging stations for private and commercial electric vehicles, adding 88 charging outlets along key travel routes throughout the state.
Michigan put the world on wheels and will continue driving the world forward by leading on mobility and electrification, said
Governor Gretchen Whitmer. These grants demonstrate our commitment to expanding EV infrastructure across Michigan and build on the extraordinary work and investments of our innovative industry partners and EGLE to help support drivers who make the transition to electric vehicles.
Liesl Eichler Clark never forgot her roots in her state job
Has served as EGLE director since beginning of 2019
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Liesl Eichler Clark (Courtesy Photo/Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy)
Liesl Eichler Clark may run the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, but she has never forgotten where she came from, a small sheep farm about three miles south of Pigeon.
Eichler Clark would sheer the wool off sheep, show off sheep at the Huron Community Fair, and belonged to 4-H when she lived on the farm. Other work in taking care of these sheep involved carrying five-gallon buckets of fresh water and hay and cleaning the stalls and pens of the sheep. She remembers how every February, she and her brothers were excited if there were any babies.
26 Feb 2021
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has packed her “Council on Climate Solutions” with campaign donors and a major utility lobbyist and dark money group executive that boosted her 2018 campaign, a review of campaign finance records revealed.
Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-182 last September to create the board, which advises the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.
“The science is clear, and message urgent: the earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, and human activities are largely responsible for this change,” the order said.
Members of the advisory board are tasked with creating the “MI Healthy Climate Plan,” which is to “serve as the action plan for this state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition toward economywide carbon neutrality.”