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China's trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald Trump's onslaught of higher tariffs.

The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots.

The Department of Energy extended its 90-day order another 90 days to require Consumers Energy to keep an aging coal-burning power plant running, despite state's assessment it's not needed.

Ford Motor Company is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans as the company takes financial losses and finds consumer demand for EVs waning.

Many modern technologies share small but vital components called critical minerals — and China has a near-monopoly on the supply chain for most of them. But what if we got more of those minerals by recycling our old iPhones, computers, and so many other electronics?

Dozens of Saline residents gathered Monday to protest a data center proposal, holding posters with slogans like “Protect Pure MI" and "DTE dirty data deal."

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

First, experts from the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy spoke to the importance of the newly declared "Microplastics Awareness Week." Then, a Michigan-born recipe developer and cook discussed her new book, Lebanese Baking, a more-than 100 recipe tribute to the flavors and techniques of Lebanon.

Ann Arbor for Public Power says it wants a city-owned electric utility, because it says DTE Energy is too expensive, too unreliable, and too dependent on fossil fuels.

Michigan utilities' average time to restore power to customers after outages was worst among all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2023, according to the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan.