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Michigan Moves Toward a Healthy Climate Through Clean Energy Legislation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     This April, Michigan Senate Democrats introduced the Clean Energy Future Plan, a package of bills designed to help support and sustain Michigan’s longstanding fight for...
            

Power to the People: How Advocates Work to Hold Utilities Accountable to the Community

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     We’re finally leaving behind another long Michigan winter.  You might have been one of the half a million plus households who lost power during February’s...
            

Press ReleaseCommunity Collaboration Unveils Comprehensive Plan to Tackle Air Pollution in Southeast Michigan

                                                                                                                  Report documents collaborative efforts to use monitors, data, outreach to advocate for right to clean air 
            

The Solution to Plastic Pollution: Refuse, Rethink, ReDesign

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     In the early 60s, at the dawn of the plastics revolution, less than half a million tons of plastic were produced each year. Today, it's...
            

Everywhere Toxic Chemicals All at Once

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     How an Ohio train derailment exposes the urgency of the plastics crisis 

As a black cloud as large as a town billowed over the farmland of East Palestine,...

Press ReleaseReceipt Deceit: Toxic Chemicals in Receipt Paper Press Release

For Immediate Release: March 23, 2023

Press ReleasePower Outage Hearings Must Focus on Customer Impacts and Solutions to Grid Failures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Utilities continue fueling misinformation in first legislative hearing on power outages.

LANSING – Following the first Michigan legislative oversight hearing about power outages, several non-profit advocacy...

Beware of the Smirch!: New childrens’ book highlights the Ecology Center’s research on dangers of toxic Mardi Gras throws

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     A new book written by Verdi Gras’ Holly Groh, M.D. demonstrates the dangers of toxic Mardi Gras throws and overconsumption. The Smirch of Mardi Gras...
            

Press ReleaseEnergy Experts Propose Cleaner, More Equitable Alternative to DTE Energy’s Plan

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Lansing, MI – Today, a coalition of clean energy advocates — Vote Solar, Environmental Law...

Opportunity to Give Feedback on Ann Arbor's Recycling & Composting Outreach and Education

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Attention Ann Arbor residents and business owners: Do you have ideas to help build Ann Arbor's recycling and composting outreach program? If so, we could...
            

Press ReleaseAnglers Find ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Every Fish Tested from Huron and Rouge Rivers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Community anglers found toxic PFAS at high levels in 12 species of commonly-consumed fish, putting subsistence anglers at elevated risk

Ann Arbor, MI, February 23, 2023...

The Ecology Center Applauds Nearly $500 Million of Clean Mobility Incentives in Governor Whitmer’s Budget Proposal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     On Wednesday, Governor Whitmer released her budget proposal, which is being lauded by a diverse group of non-profit organizations across the state. Among the billions...
            

Press ReleaseClean Mobility, Energy Efficient Homes Get Boost in Gov. Whitmer’s Budget Proposal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     LANSING, Mich. – A diverse group of non-profit organizations today applauded Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s budget proposal for including investments in clean mobility, energy efficient homes...
            

Bad News: Chemical Recycling Greenlit in Michigan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Chemical recycling is a dangerous distraction from desperately needed solutions to address the plastic pollution crisis we face across the globe. Michigan advocates are now...
            

Eating Great Lakes Fish Presents a Sobering Risk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     A new report expands on the Ecology Center's testing of freshwater fish for PFAS; finds alarming PFAS levels in Great Lakes freshwater fish with subsistence...
            