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Stop the Michigan Coal Rush!

You can stop Michigan from getting more dirty coal plants!

Right now, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is taking comments on the air permit application for the proposed Rogers City coal plant. If this coal plant receives a permit, it will start our state down a very dangerous path.

Take Action: Please take a moment to tell the DEQ to deny the Rogers City coal plant permit. Your voice counts and it must be heard!

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  • energy
  • global warming
  • Letter to a Decision Maker

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Stop the Michigan Coal Rush!

You can stop Michigan from getting more dirty coal plants!

Right now, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is taking comments on the air permit application for the proposed Rogers City coal plant. If this coal plant receives a permit, it will start our state down a very dangerous path.

Take Action: Please take a moment to tell the DEQ to deny the Rogers City coal plant permit. Your voice counts and it must be heard!

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  • Michigan
  • energy
  • global warming
  • Letter to a Decision Maker

Tell Gov. Jennifer Granholm: Declare CO2 emissions a global warming pollutant!

We are urging Governor Granholm to sign an executive order that would prevent coal plants from being built until we have measures that will protect the public health and prevent carbon dioxide pollution. Carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants is one of the biggest contributors to global warming in the United States, producing almost 40 percent of the nation's global warming pollution.

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  • global warming
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Restrict the Use of Lindane

Please take action to support HB 4569 to protect children and the Great Lakes from lindane, a pesticide that is banned for use in 53 countries and is no longer used in the U.S. on pets, in agriculture, or in the military.

Currently, lindane can be applied directly to children's heads or bodies in Michigan to treat head lice or scabies. HB 4569 would allow use of lindane only in a doctor's office under a doctor's direct supervision. HB 4569 passed the House by a more than 2 to 1 margin (72-35) with bi-partisan support and is currently awaiting action in the Senate Health Policy Committee, chaired by Senator Tom George.

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  • Michigan
  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
  • toxics

Stop the Next PCBs!

PBDEs - flame retardants that are rapidly accumulating in our bodies and the Great Lakes - are toxic to animals and may threaten our own health. HB 4465 would phase-out deca-BDE, the only remaining commercial polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) not yet banned in Michigan, in certain products for which effective, safer, affordable alternatives are already in use.

To protect Michigan's children, our firefighters, and the Great Lakes, Michigan needs to pass HB 4465 immediately. Please e-mail your representative today!

Learn more or take action now by personalizing the message to your state representative.

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  • Michigan
  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
  • toxics

Help stop the dumping of Canadian and out-of-state trash in Michigan

Canada and other states continue to flood Michigan with their garbage because it's dirt cheap to dump here. In 2005, 6.2 million tons of Canadian and out-of-state trash were dumped in Michigan!

That's 100,000 tons more than in 2004. Nearly one-third of all the garbage in our landfills comes from outside Michigan and it comes here for two simple reasons:

  • We're the cheapest dumping ground in the region; and
  • We have too much landfill space.

You can help fight the trashing of our beautiful state! Write your State Senator and Representative today and urge them to stop the flood of trash into Michigan.

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  • Michigan
  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker

Stop More Dangerous Coal Plant Emissions!

Global warming is the most significant environmental and humanitarian emergency that our planet has ever faced and the Governor's leadership is critical is at this pivotal moment in our fight.

Sign the petition and urge the Governor to continue her leadership in the fight against climate change by issuing an executive order that directs the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.

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  • energy
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Join 1Sky Michigan Today

To beat back global warming, we need to summon a new natural resource—real political will. Join 1Sky Michigan to send a clear message to our leaders that America wants bold action on climate change. Tell them to support the 1Sky solutions:

Solution 1: Create 5 million green jobs in order to conserve 20% of our energy by 2015.

Solution 2: Freeze climate pollution levels now, then cut by at least 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050.

Solution 3: No new coal plants that emit global warming pollution; invest in renewable energy.

Join 1Sky Michigan today.

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Great Lakes, Great Michigan

  • Great Lakes, Great Michigan

    Michigan's waters are our most prized asset and we must do all we can to ensure they are public resources not private investments for international corporations.

1SKy

  • 1SKy

    1Sky was created to focus the power of millions of concerned Americans on a single goal: bold federal action by 2010 to reverse global warming based on a simple set of solutions. We're creating a movement that our leaders can't ignore!

Children's Environmental Health

  • Children's Environmental Health

    Protecting children from pharmaceutical lindane, working to ban the flame retardant, deca-BDE, working to promote alternatives to PBDEs, flame-retardants that are rapidly accumulating in our bodies and the Great Lakes, have been found to be toxic to animals and may threaten our own health are all part of our Children's Environmental Health Campaign

Clean Kent County

  • Clean Kent County

    Approximately 1 million gallons of untreated waste is discharged from Kent County's failing septic systems every day. While there are a variety of reasons why residents don't properly maintain their septic systems there is one resounding reason why we should: untreated waste doesn't obey property boundaries!

Healthy Michigan

  • Healthy Michigan

    Every day, the United States produces or imports 42 billion pounds of chemicals. Although anyone can be negatively impacted by chemical exposure, research has shown that children may be uniquely vulnerable to the effects of chemical exposure during the periods of fetal, infant, and child development.

Michigan's Clean Energy Future

  • Michigan's Clean Energy Future

    Taking the Next Steps Toward Michigan's Clean Energy Future

    On September 18th, Michigan’s legislature passed an energy package that makes slight headway down the path to bringing clean, renewable energy to the state. Now that the first step has been taken, Clean Water Action will keep pressure on decision-makers to strengthen Michigan’s energy policy to make us a national leader in renewable energy manufacturing. Together, we can make sure that the momentum is not slowed in the wake of the energy package’s passage.

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