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Press Releases

New EPA Health Safeguards Offer Wolverine Chance to Move Toward Clean Energy
2012.01.16

EPA Issues First-Ever Protections against Toxic Mercury-Measure will protect Michigan women and children from dangerous brain poison
2011.12.21

Groups to Snyder: Time To Lead on Clean Energy Economy- Ahead of PSC meeting, Snyder administration and utilities have chance to embrace clean energy economy, create jobs in Michigan
2011.12.08

Groups Call on Snyder To Embrace Clean Energy-Consumers Energy’s Coal Plant Closings Should Spark Policy Change
2011.12.02

News of Bay City Coal Plant Death Sparks Reaction
2011.12.02

Construction Crews Release Coal Ash Plume at Karn Weadock Coal Plant Site
2011.11.17

Groups Tell Snyder: Take the First Step Toward Offshore Wind
2011.11.15

Protest on DTE Demands Clean and Affordable Energy - Detroit citizens join to tell DTE Stop the Shutoffs, Clean Energy Jobs Now.
2011.11.01

PIE&G Members Deliver Hundreds of Petitions Against Expensive Wolverine Coal Plant at Annual Membership Meeting
2011.10.28

Wolverine Coal Plant Faces New Lawsuit
2011.09.30

Report: Cost of Coal in Michigan Up 43 Percent Over Past Year
2011.09.21

Local Citizens Near Proposed Wolverine Coal Plant To Raise Concerns At Special Hearing Tonight
2011.09.12

West Michigan Residents Experience Another Bad Air Quality Day, New Smog Standards Expected Soon
2011.09.01

Clean Energy Candidate Ric Evans Elected to Great Lakes Energy Board of Directors
2011.08.24

MI Citizens to DEQ: Awards for Dirty Coal Plants Aren’t Fooling Anyone
2011.08.18

Wolverine Facing Continued Opposition to Proposed Rogers City Power Plant from Member Cooperative Board of Director Candidates
2011.08.05

Snyder’s Coal Plant Approval is Nation’s 1st Since New EPA Rule
2011.07.13

Citizens Criticize Snyder for Allowing Controversial Rogers City Coal Plant to Move Forward
2011.06.29

CEN to Snyder: Stop Wolverine’s Pricey Coal Plant, State has legal duty to steer utility toward cleaner sources of power
2011.06.21

Michigan Residents Board "Bus for Clean Air," Testify at EPA Hearing in Chicago
2011.05.24

Citizens To Tell State Regulators To Reject Coal Plant Residents from Rogers City to Lansing Could Be Hit with Big Electric Bills
2011.05.19

Citizens Groups Sue Michigan for Ignoring Law, Issuing Holland Coal Plant Permit
2011.05.12

DTE Energy CEO Lobbies to Weaken Clean Air Protections from Toxic Mercury
2011.04.15

Clean Energy Now Calls on DEQ to Reject Wolverine Permit
2011.04.14

Statement regarding MDEQ decision to issue Holland Coal Plant Permit
2011.02.11

DEQ Urged to Reject Holland Coal Plant Permit; Health, Ratepayer Costs Too High
2011.02.10

Clean energy push scraps 150 coal plants; time for Wolverine and Holland to dump coal in Michigan
2011.02.04

Citizens Urge Snyder Administration to Block Flawed Rogers City Coal Permit
2011.02.03

Cancer-Causing Chemical in the Water: New Report Details Risk- Coal ash waste contains hexavalent chromium
2011.02.01

Citizens Applaud Michigan for Appealing Badly Flawed Holland Coal Plant Ruling
2011.01.05

Groups Ask Snyder To Support Clean Energy Jobs Letter Focuses On Incoming Administration’s Coal Plant Policies
2010.12.23

Granholm Urged to Appeal Badly Flawed Holland Coal Plant Ruling
2010.12.16

Residents to Lansing Utility: Clean Up Your Coal Plants! Neighbors, Groups Push DNRE to Enforce Law, Require Utility to Pursue Cleaner Energy
2010.12.15

Residents to Lansing Utility: Clean Up Your Coal Plants! Neighbors, Groups Push DNRE to Enforce Utility to Pursue Cleaner Energy
2010.12.15

Students Rally for Clean and Healthy Energy Future at MSU
2010.11.17

Consumers Energy's Weak Response Shows Coal Ash Rules Vital as Public Comment Ends Friday
2010.11.17

PIE&G Member Owners Question Expensive Coal Plant Investment at Annual Membership Meeting
2010.10.29

Citizens: Consumers Energy Permit to Drain Wetlands is Wrong Move
2010.10.28

DTE’s Dirty Expansion: Illegal Effort to Avoid Coal Plant Clean Up
2010.09.28

MI Citizens Tell EPA: Crack Down on Toxic Coal Ash, Protect People’s Safety
2010.09.16

New Report Reveals Widespread Toxic Coal Ash Contamination
2010.08.26

Citizens Win after Controversial Coal Plant in Holland is Denied
2010.08.20

Electric Company's Lawsuit Would Bring Rate Hike
2010.08.12

EPA Shows Commitment to Clean Air- Charges Monroe Coal Plant Illegally Expanded in the Spring
2010.08.05

Consumers Energy wants DNRE permit to drain crucial wetlands for no reason
2010.07.28

Consumers Energy Hides Coal Ash Leaks, Puts People at Risk
2010.07.22

A Statement from the Lansing Can Do Better Coalition on the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s Combined Cycle Natural Gas Plant
2010.07.21

Cherryland Co-op Members Press Cherryland Electric Over Coal Plant at Annual Meeting
2010.06.16

Michigan consumers take on Cherryland Electric over coal plant
2010.06.08

Groups Hail Consumers Energy’s Decision To Pull Plug on Coal Plant
2010.05.27

CMS Energy Faced Coal Challenges at Shareholder Meeting
2010.05.21

Groups Applaud Wolverine Coal Plant Permit Denial by Governor Granholm, Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
2010.05.21

CMS Energy Shareholders Asked to Support Resolutions
2010.05.03

Consumers Energy Shareholders Signal Deep Concern about Bay City Coal Plant
2010.04.15

Report: Consumers Energy Coal Plant, An Unreasonable Price for an Unnecessary Plant
2010.04.08

Consumers Plans to Build Controversial $3.57 Billion Coal Plant on Wetlands
2010.03.02

 

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