Archive: Clean Energy
Keeping 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 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,...
Read MoreOpinion | Permitting precedent imperils Michigan’s waters
This powerful piece from Beth Wallace, Great Lakes climate and energy director at the National Wildlife Federation, underscores exactly why MiCAN is deeply invested in stopping the Line 5 tunnel project. As Wallace highlights, allowing this project to bypass proper oversight would threaten the integrity...
Read MoreDetroit rally pushes back against Trump efforts to dismantle climate and health protections
More than 200 people gathered in Detroit for the “Climate Can’t Wait” rally. Joined by lawmakers and local leaders, the event spotlighted threats to clean air, water, and environmental justice.
Read MoreMichigan residents protest Trump’s environmental cuts in Southwest Detroit
Despite heavy snow, over 200 Michiganders rallied for the “Climate Can’t Wait” event. The rally featured union leaders, youth activists, and elected officials demanding federal action to defend the Inflation Reduction Act and environmental justice. MiCAN Executive Director Denise Keele emphasized Detroit’s central role in...
Read MoreMichiganders rally in Detroit to push back against federal attacks on clean air and water
As the roll backs of environmental protections and clean energy investments continue, Michiganders gathered in Detroit to defend climate progress and demand environmental justice. Co-hosted by MiCAN, the rally featured elected officials, youth leaders, and community advocates speaking out against threats to clean air, water,...
Read MoreMichigan leaders rally for action on climate and environmental protections
Activists gathered in Detroit for the “Climate Can’t Wait” rally, calling for action on environmental justice and climate protections amid sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. The rally, supported by MiCAN and partner organizations, underscored the need to protect federal climate investments, union jobs, and...
Read MoreAnn Arbor for Public Power hosts climate week block party
Ann Arbor for Public Power held a Climate Week Block Party on Sunday at the Liberty Plaza, which included state Representative Jason Morgan and Washtenaw County Commissioner Yousef Rabhi, with the community rallying around environmental action and public energy ownership.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Green Groups Urge Army Corps Climate Action on Line 5 Tunnel
“The Army Corps has got to get this right”
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