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$30M Trash-To-Power Project Moves Forward
LENNOX TOWNSHIP (AP) – The Texas-based company that owns the Pine Tree Acres landfill in Michigan is moving forward with a $30 million project to convert methane gas from decomposing trash into...
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Sen. Stabenow Aims To Pass ‘Stop Canadian Trash Act’
DETROIT (AP) - U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, having helped arrange an agreement that significantly reduced the amount of Canadian waste entering Michigan, is now looking to keep it all out of her state....
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Michigan Landfill To Host Gas-to-Energy Conversion
KIMBALL TWP. (AP) – In about a month, gas from Smiths Creek Landfill will be turned into usable electricity. Construction of a gas-to-energy generator at the landfill has been ongoing since July on the...
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Landfill Rules Could Make Energy Projects Cheaper
KIMBALL TWP. (WWJ/AP) - A recently signed Michigan law could make it less costly to expand the use of the bioreactor technology to generate energy from landfills. The Times Herald of Port Huron reports...
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Michigan State University To Convert Waste To Energy
EAST LANSING (AP) - Michigan State University trustees Friday authorized construction of a $5 million device that will convert farm and dining hall waste to energy for campus buildings. The “anaerobic...
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Did A Dead Body Come Over With Canadian Trash?
MONTROSE TOWNSHIP (WWJ/AP) - Authorities suspect his body of a 38-year-old Ontario man likely arrived in Michigan in a shipment of Canadian garbage. Police said Tuesday they’ve identified a body found...
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Willow Run-Area Hazardous Waste Landfill Expanding
VAN BUREN TWP. (WWJ/AP) - A 55-year-old hazardous waste landfill in southeastern Michigan is expanding over the next year. The 500-acre Environmental Quality Wayne Disposal Center opened in 1957 in...
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Authorities ID Body Found In Riverview Landfill
RIVERVIEW (WWJ) - Authorities say a body found by an excavator driver at a Downriver landfill has been identified. Police say the body discovered Tuesday at the Riverview Land Preserve is that of a...
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Reward Offered For Info On Man Found In Riverview Landfill
RIVERVIEW (WWJ) – A $2,500 reward is being offered for information in the death of a Grosse Pointe Park man whose body was found in a Downriver landfill. The body of 29-year-old Derek Golden was found...
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Man Faces Prison After Putting Friend’s Body In Trash
James Cummings (Booking Photo) CORUNNA (WWJ/AP) - A 35-year-old Michigan man who says he put his friend’s body in a large trash bin after the man died of an apparent drug overdose faces up to six years...
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Amid Concerns, Gov. Snyder Wants Review Of Michigan Radioactive Waste Standards
TRAVERSE CITY (AP/WWJ) — Gov. Rick Snyder ordered a review Monday of state standards for disposing certain types of radioactive waste in landfills, responding to public anger over the disclosure that...
View ArticleMacomb Landfill Getting Second Waste Power Plant
LENOX TWP. (AP) – Southeastern Michigan will have one of the region’s largest waste-to-energy projects when a Macomb County landfill adds a new methane-burning electric power plant in January. The two...
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