utility shutoffs

Hot summers do not end water shutoffs in some Great Lakes cities. When struggling people need water the most, it might not be available.

The city’s water service shutoff moratorium started during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The city says Monday that collection efforts and water service disconnections that were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic will restart July 18.

DTE service shutoffs among Detroit residents surpassed 200,000 during the pandemic. Outlier Media and ProPublica looked at the numbers. What they found was another case of Detroiters being disproportionately penalized by the systems we all use and rely on.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib plans to introduce a bill on Friday that would offer forgivable loans to people who have fallen behind on utility payments…

The ACLU and other civil rights groups are suing the city of Detroit and others over Detroit’s water shutoffs.Detroit has shut off water service to around…

The Citizens Utility Board of Michigan (CUB), a consumers advocacy group, says low-income gas and electric customers "are poised to experience a crisis of…

More than a million people - a quarter of Michigan's workforce - have filed for unemployment since Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued her first "Stay Home,…