Infrastructure
Michigan has joined six other Midwestern states in teaming up to accelerate the development of hydrogen as a clean-energy alternative for automobiles and factories that rely largely on climate-warming fossil fuels, governors said Monday.
A plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, and the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway.
General Motors, Pilot Travel Centers and EVgo said they will build 2,000 charging stalls at "up to" 500 Pilot Flying J sites across the nation.
Michigan's two largest electricity providers say that 8.8 million residents won’t have to worry about rolling blackouts this summer.
"Once again we've proven that in Michigan Republicans and Democrats can work together to get things done," Whitmer said ahead of the bill signing. "This plan will help us continue fixing the damn roads — and the dams and roads."
