Van Buren Township

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking a rehearing with state utility regulators over the approval of an electric service contract for Google's hyperscale data center in Van Buren Township.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel pushed for stronger contract terms, arguing other customers could be at risk if the data center uses less power than forecast, or shuts down before the 20-year contracts expire.

A Wayne County Circuit Court judge has barred a Michigan landfill from accepting radioactive waste from Manhattan Project-era sites, siding with Wayne County and local communities.

The proposed 1 gigawatt data center would be developed in an industrial area in the Detroit suburb of Van Buren Township, but some residents have organized opposition.

Today, what role oversight plays in the reliability of the grid and how elected officials are responding to more frequent outages. Then, we checked in on a hazardous waste dump in Van Buren Township, and its connection to toxic waste from the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Plus, a look at a new comic centering the stories of Black queer icons.

The derailment happened east of Belleville near Haggerty Road, south of I-94. Township police say there is no threat to the public, since no rail cars containing hazardous materials were among those that went off the rails.