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Wildfire smoke and heat waves force vulnerable Michigan residents indoors
Denise Keele, executive director of the Michigan Climate Action Network, said her camp’s “anger and demands are more appropriately focused on our own Michigan elected officials who continue to deny and fail to address the actual cause – climate change.”
Read MoreLocals mark 15 years since Kalamazoo spill, protest new Enbridge project
"We are here today to learn from our past and to not let Enbridge continue to steal from our future," Dr. Denise Keele, Executive Director at Michigan Climate Action Network. 15 years after the Kalamazoo oil spill, environmentalists meet to strengthen their resolve in protecting...
Read MoreUpdate to Scientific Report Finds Climate Change Threatens Great Lakes
ELPC has just released the major update to their successful 2019 report on climate change and the Great Lakes. This report was crafted by top scientists from major Big 10/Midwest universities and coordinated by the ELPC Science Advisory Board member Don Wuebbles.
Read MoreMichigan Environmental Groups Argue Line 5 Tunnel Project Lacks Key Climate Considerations
Several groups, including MiCAN and the ELPC have submitted comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to argue that the draft EIS is inadequate and overlooks the potential harms of the project.
Read MoreGreen Groups Urge Army Corps Climate Action on Line 5 Tunnel
On June 30, MiCAN and the Environmental Law & Policy Center submitted comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, calling on the agency to include climate change and greenhouse gas considerations in its Environmental Impact Statement regarding the Line 5 Tunnel Project under the...
Read MoreKeeping Everyone’s Lights On: How to Build an Equitable, Climate-Resilient Power Grid
This report outlines key strategies for enhancing stability and ensuring long-term energy security, including reforming the transmission planning process, collaborating with researchers and experts, and updating the metrics used to evaluate investments in transmission.
Read MoreStudy: Proposed Line 5 tunnel in Straits of Mackinac would cause ‘detrimental effects’
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found in a study that multiple "direct, detrimental effects" that would be caused to the environment by the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline tunnel proposal.
Read MoreFederal report warns of environmental risks from Line 5 tunnel project in Straits of Mackinac
Click on Detroit expands more on the federal report released detailing the risks involved in the Line 5 tunnel project in the Straits of Mackinac. Watch their report below:
Read MoreExpert: climate activists should love foresters
Reconnecting with her forestry roots, our executive director Dr. Denise Keele, presented the value of forest carbon sequestration to a packed house at the annual meeting of the Michigan Society of American Foresters on April 9, 2025. Michigan’s forests naturally capture approximately 10%...
Read MoreFederal Attacks on Climate Funding, Staff and Programs Will Increase Health Risks and Costs for Michiganders
At a virtual briefing hosted by Michigan Solutions for All, MiCAN Executive Director Dr. Denise Keele joined partners to sound the alarm on dangerous federal rollbacks to climate funding, clean energy programs, and environmental protections, threats that would raise energy costs, deepen health disparities,...
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