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Tell EPA: Keep Our Skies Clear of Dirty Truck Emissions!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The transportation sector is now the top producer of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S.  But did you know that medium and heavy-duty trucks account...
            

Press ReleaseClean Energy Advocates Celebrate Agreement on Consumers Energy Resource Plan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Today, Consumers Energy, an investor-owned utility in Michigan that provides energy to 67% of the state, reached a proposed settlement agreement on its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)...
            

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       After a year of Workgroup and Council meetings, listening sessions, and stakeholder convenings, Michigan’s Governor Whitmer and the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy...
            

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Affordable U.S. child car seats have more flame retardant chemicals than similar European car seats

More than 40 U.S. models without added chemical hazards are available,...

DTE Energy Waste Reduction Case Settlement Helps The Most Vulnerable Customers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       For years, the Ecology Center has worked tirelessly alongside its partners to ensure that DTE, Michigan’s largest utility, meets the needs of millions of statewide...
            

Three Alternatives to Toxic Mardi Gras Throws

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       No object screams bacchanalian melee quite like the beaded throws chucked at revelers along the Mardi Gras parade route each spring during Carnival. In New...
            

Test Your Products for PFAS with a Water Droplet

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       PFAS are everywhere. Recently, our partners at Toxic-Free Future found 72% of products labeled stain- and water-resistant contain PFAS. (Read the report here.)

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Support Michigan's Healthy Climate Plan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The Michigan Council on Climate Solutions (Climate Council), alongside other experts and stakeholders, have been working under the leadership of the Department of Environment, Great...
            

Press ReleaseEV Infrastructure and Purchase Incentives Part of Transportation Recommendations in Draft MI Healthy Climate Plan

                                                                                                    ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Transportation will look different in Michigan – and that’s a good thing – under recommendations in the 
            

Press ReleaseConsumers Energy Receives Poor Grades from Advocates on Planned Gas Investments

                                                                                                    A coalition of clean energy, environmental justice, and consumer advocacy organizations released a report card analyzing Consumers Energy’s 15-year Integrated Resource Plan
            

Press ReleaseMichigan Should Power Grid With Renewables, Reduce Energy Use, Boost Electrification in State Climate Plan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       LANSING, Mich. – Nearly 30 Michigan organizations and more than 450 individuals and counting outlined key recommendations to use less energy, power the grid with...
            

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Thousands of Michigan children are lead poisoned each year and nothing is done about it… because no one even knows it’s happening. Not even their...
            

Press ReleaseEnvironmental, community justice, labor groups urge Congress to finish the job, pass Build Back Better Act

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       DETROIT, Mich. — As President Biden visits General Motors’ Factory ZERO to tout the bipartisan infrastructure bill, Michigan environmental advocates, labor unions and community justice groups...
            

Press ReleaseCoalition calls for historic $600 million investment in Michigan’s electric vehicle infrastructure, workforce training

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       LANSING- From electric vehicle infrastructure to workforce training and cleaner school buses, a diverse coalition of organizations and industries today called on the Michigan Legislature to...
            

Press ReleaseWhitmer’s New Directive Sets a National Precedent for PFAS-free State Procurement

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The Ecology Center praised an executive directive issued by Governor Whitmer today to limit the purchase of products containing PFAS by the state of Michigan....
            