Ecology Center

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Founded in 1970, the Ecology Center serves one purpose: protecting healthy people and a healthy planet. We believe that the central question of our time is how human beings are going to thrive in the world without destroying the earth's ability to sustain us. This can only be achieved with your support.

We believe the central question of our time is how are we going to thrive in the world without destroying the earth's ability to sustain us.

Hubbell Pond

How Did the Same Company Poison the Huron River For a Second Time?

Help us call on automakers to stop using toxic chromium in vehicles!

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Ecology Center

Changemakers' Block Party

The Michigan State Capitol in Lansing

Purchasing for Safer Cities

Child in car seat

Toxic Inequities: 2022 Car Seat Report

PFAS foam washes up on Lake Huron

Protecting Communities from PFAS Pollution

Sharon Hollow

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Ending Lead Poisoning

Ending Lead Poisoning

Jason Bing (left) and Charles Griffith (right) standing atop Miller Manor, Ann Arbor Affordable Housing, in front of their solar power display

Climate Action & Energy Equity

50th anniversary

Ecology Center at 50

Health Leaders Fellowship

Health Leaders Fellowship

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Environmental Education

Gillian Zaharias working in the Healthy Stuff Lab

Healthy Stuff Lab

The Ecology Center

50 Years of Fighting for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet, a mini-documentary by Detroit filmmaker, Oren Goldenberg

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Chrome plating

Michigan Environmental Advocates Demand Automakers Cease Use of Hexavalent Chromium

Ford emblem

Open Letter to Automakers Calling for Ceasing the Use of Hexavalent Chromium

Hubbell Pond

How Did the Same Company Poison the Huron River For a Second Time?

Blake Transit Station

Justice, Labor, Housing, and Environmental Advocates Urge a YES Vote on A2/Ypsi Transit Millage

Ann Arbor Bus Station

Vote YES for Transit in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Ypsilanti Township

EPA Ruling

Wondering What a World Without the EPA’s Ability to Regulate Will Look Like? Rewind to the Burning Rivers of the 1970s.

Abortion is Healthcare

The Ecology Center Condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Healthy Climate Plan

The Michigan Healthy Climate Plan Solidifies Michigan at the Forefront of Clean Energy

kid in car seat

New Children's Car Seat Report Shows Outdated Federal Flammability Standard Unnecessarily Exposes Lower Income Children to Toxic Chemicals.

Dollar Store

Press Release: Toxic Chemicals in Dollar Store Products

Downtown Detroit

DTE Energy Waste Reduction Case Settlement Helps The Most Vulnerable Customers

Clean Mobility

Mobility Recommendations See Momentum

Water Droplet Test

Test Your Products for PFAS with a Water Droplet

MI Healthy Climate Plan

Support Michigan's Healthy Climate Plan

Consumers Energy Campbell Plant

Consumers Energy Receives Poor Grades from Advocates on Planned Gas Investments

Lead Testing

All Michigan Children Should Be Tested for Lead at One and Two Years of Age

Filter First, child at drinking fountain

Filter First! Ensuring Safe and Lead-Free Drinking Water in Schools with Filtered Drinking Water Stations