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Roadmap to Clean & Equitable Power in Michigan
A U-M Law School report outlining the legal and policy barriers to clean, equitable energy.
Clean Energy
Climate Justice
Report Summary
The state of Michigan has recently adopted some of the most progressive clean energy policies in the nation – including Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s MI Healthy Climate Plan and a new set of energy laws – in an effort to address climate change, affordability, grid reliability, and energy injustice. Despite some impressive goals and benchmarks, our laws and policies are proving inadequate to solve our energy problems, given a spiraling climate crisis, increasing energy consumer demand, rapidly increasing costs, and decreasing grid reliability.
Through the University of Michigan Law School’s Problem Solving Initiative (PSI), a multi-disciplinary series of courses designed to teach how to solve real-world problems with real-world solutions for non-University partners, 20 U-M graduate students produced a roadmap to clean and equitable power in Michigan that stakeholders can use to assess the new policies, procedures, and programs that our state needs to address climate change, energy affordability, reliability, and energy justice. You can view the report here.
