March 22, 2023 9:03 pm

The Ocean Twilight Zone Could Store Vast Amounts of Carbon Captured from the Atmosphere

Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.

Opinion | Monique Stanton: Increasing Michigan’s EITC Will Help Working Families and Local Businesses 

On Thursday afternoon, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced her support for increasing the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) — or as she referred to it, the Working Families Tax Credit — as a proven, bipartisan policy to put more money back in the pockets of working families and small businesses.