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Taking advantage of Consumers Energy’s new automatic billing alerts allows customers to cross off at least one item from their long “to-do” list this holiday season.

The Architects Foundation, along with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), today issued its first progress report of the AIA’s Design and Health Research Consortium. The consortium helps translate research on design’s influence on public health into architectural practice for policymakers, design and public health professionals and the general public.

A man exonerated in a high-profile case in which five New York City teenagers were wrongly convicted has pledged $190,000 to support the Innocence Project at the University of Colorado Law School.

Consumers Energy today presented a $97,740 Business Solutions incentive rebate check to American MITSUBA Corp. for participating in the company’s energy efficiency program for commercial and industrial customers

Residents of this picturesque Columbia River Gorge county this week submitted three times as many signatures as they need to qualify for the ballot an initiative that would block corporate behemoth, Nestlé, from bottling and selling their precious public water. The precedent-setting local ballot measure would block Nestlé’s proposed water bottling plant in the Gorge and prohibit commercial water bottling in Hood River County

“At Consumers Energy, safety is the foundation of everything we do. Our goal is for everyone to safely enjoy this special time of year filled with celebrations, family and friends. Following 10 simple electric safety tips can help ensure the holiday season is memorable for all,” said Aaron Kantor, director of emergency management for Consumers Energy.

A new report shows 2015 shaping up to be the United States solar market’s best year in history with record-breaking fourth quarter projections

Informa Exhibitions and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) have announced the results of the 2015 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, held Nov. 18-20 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Attendance was 19,058, a significant increase over the 2014 event. There were 548 exhibiting companies participating in 144,300 square feet of exhibit and display space on the trade show floor.

WSSC’s Patuxent Water Filtration Plant (WFP) received the prestigious President’s Award from the Partnership for Safe Water. The award recognizes utilities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to delivering superior quality drinking water to customers.

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) applauds the House of Representatives’ approval of H.R. 1321, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015. This bipartisan bill, sponsored by Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), bans the manufacture of rinse-off cosmetics containing plastic microbeads by July 1, 2017 and bans the delivery of these products by July 1, 2018.

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) applauded today's announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled a voluntary Construction General Permit (CGP) stormwater compliance template for residential building lots of one acre or less.

Consumers Energy employees today presented a $5,000 contribution from the company’s foundation to two United Way agencies, one of several grants that employees are sharing with Michigan nonprofit organizations to celebrate ethics awards they have received.

Congresswoman Aumua Amata, just one day after announcing the dramatic increase to education funding that Congresswoman Amata was able to negotiate with House Education & Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, which drastically increases the funding for education on the island, the Congresswoman announced that with the passage of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST) yesterday, American Samoa will also see an increase in surface transportation infrastructure funding

After months of deliberation both the House and Senate yesterday by wide margins passed multiyear transportation legislation—the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST). President Obama is expected to sign the bill before current authorization expires at the end of today.

A successful Light Up the City Saginaw crime reduction campaign concluded with the presentation of a $10,000 check from Consumers Energy to the Saginaw Witness Assistance Program administered by the Saginaw County Prosecutor’s office

Rep. Todd Rokita (IN-04), the only Indiana majority member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bipartisan, bicameral, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act

In the flurry of legislative business before the year’s end, the House passed two bills this week to reauthorize transportation infrastructure funding and restore local control of primary and secondary education. Congressman John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15) supported both bipartisan measures.

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson signed onto an amicus brief regarding the recent decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the American Farm Bureau Federation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency. The brief outlines concerns about the EPA’s overreach in the Chesapeake Bay blueprint, in which the EPA has issued an ultimatum to states that if they don’t follow the federal blueprint, they risk the EPA taking over their water quality plans under the Clean Water Act.

The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) announced today that it has selected affordable housing non-profit IBA - Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción as the developer for its West Newton/Rutland Streets properties, which includes the revitalization of 146 units in the public housing site in Boston’s historic South End.

Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced a goal for his second term of helping at least 8,000 people out of homelessness forever through strategies that stabilize people’s lives through the City’s nationally recognized housing and services and building a system that ends a person’s homelessness before it becomes chronic.