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A gopher frog is pictured at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans on Sept. 27, 2011. The Biden administration on Thursday, June 23, 2022, withdrew a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump that limited which lands and waters could be designated as places where imperiled animals and plants could receive federal protection. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Federal agencies reverse Trump limits on habitat protection
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Thu,06/23/22-12:26PM , 483 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday withdrew a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump that limited which lands and waters could be designated as places where imperiled animals and plants could receive federal protection.
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Asian carp are unloaded at Two Rivers Fisheries in Wickliffe, Ky., Feb. 11, 2020. The state of Illinois is unveiling a market-tested rebranding campaign to make the fish appealing to consumers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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From 'carp' to 'copi': unpopular fish getting a makeover
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Wed,06/22/22-11:32AM , 277 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — You're in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River?

Here's the catch: They're the same thing.
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This undated photo provided by Consumers Energy shows an aerial view of the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant near Ludington, Mich. The plant generates electricity by pumping water from Lake Michigan to a reservoir on top of a bluff, then releasing it through giant turbines as needed. Advocates of pumped storage call such facilities the "world's largest batteries." (AP Photo/Consumers Energy)

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Energy shift creates opening for 'world's largest batteries'
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Tue,04/19/22-11:09AM , 241 Reads
LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — Sprawled like a gigantic swimming pool atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an asphalt-and-clay pond holding enough water to produce electricity for 1.6 million households.
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Militia members wait inside the Senate chamber at the Capitol building during the "American Patriot Rally on Capitol Lawn" protest in Lansing, Mich., Thursday April 30, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak. Experts say far-right groups in the U.S. are taking a more dangerously radical turn as four men go on trial in an alleged scheme to kidnap Michigan's governor. (Nicole Hester/Mlive.com/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)

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Experts: Alleged plot against governor signals ominous shift
By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press
Sun,03/06/22-9:14AM , 242 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — They railed against politicians, conducted military-style exercises and spoke darkly of confronting tyrants scheming to seize their guns and enslave them.
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