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Today on the show, Bridge Michigan analyzes the share of legislators receiving campaign contributions from DTE and Consumer's Energy.

Recent outages affected hundreds of thousands of Michiganders. One Washtenaw County commissioner says utility companies have too much influence over state politicians.

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.

Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, and Michigan Public Service Commission Chair Dan Scripps joined the show to talk through holding Michigan's energy companies accountable.

Last week’s ice storm left hundreds of thousands of households without power for days through freezing temperatures. That’s as giant floods and downed electric lines due to torrential storms have become more common due to climate change.

More than 700,000 utility customers lost power in the wake of Wednesday's winter storm, mostly blamed on accumulating ice and high winds.

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An ice storm Wednesday night knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of Michiganders.

DTE said "a technical issue" was preventing access to customer service systems Wednesday night.

The Energy and Policy Institute says DTE Energy had the third highest number of power shutoffs to its customers in 2021 and 2022, among the utilities operating in the 35 states included in its latest report.