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Michigan League of Conservation Voters

All Michiganders deserve a just, liveable future, and we understand what’s at stake. We need to make sure our elected officials share our values. Achieving that is going to take education, advocacy, and political action.

And all three of those strategies rely on you — your commitment and your willingness to fight for justice and the people and places you love.

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Clean Air & Climate Action

  • Tell Your Lawmaker: Update the building codes to save us money on our energy bills

    Tell Your Lawmaker: Update the building codes to save us money on our energy bills

    Michigan’s outdated building codes prevent crucial energy-saving upgrades that could lower monthly bills and cut energy use. Tell your lawmaker to support new building codes that would save Michiganders up to $325 annually.

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  • Tell your lawmaker: Michigan should only support sensible data center legislation

    Tell your lawmaker: Michigan should only support sensible data center legislation

    Senate Bill 237 and House Bill 4906 would give big state tax breaks to “enterprise” data centers through 2050. These bills raise serious concerns about our energy infrastructure, affordable water use, and the actual amount of jobs these facilities create.

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  • Tell the MPSC: Reject DTE’s Rate Increase

    Tell the MPSC: Reject DTE’s Rate Increase

    Our rates are already too high, and now DTE wants to raise them by another $456 million just four months after securing a $368 million rate increase. Send a message to MPSC: Reject DTE Energy’s rate increase.

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  • Thank your lawmakers for passing historic clean energy legislation

    Thank your lawmakers for passing historic clean energy legislation

    The Clean Energy & Jobs Act is a big win for Michigan and represents the most substantive action to address the climate crisis in state history. Now, we need your help to show our appreciation for our elected leaders who passed these historic bills!

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  • Support Legislation for Independent Community Solar

    Support Legislation for Independent Community Solar

    Senate Bills 152 and 153 would remove unnecessary restrictions on local solar projects, making it easier for communities to generate their own clean, affordable solar energy.

    Michigan has the highest energy costs in the Midwest and some of the worst service. Community solar can help residents lower their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint.

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Environmental Justice

  • Tell your lawmaker: Michigan should only support sensible data center legislation

    Tell your lawmaker: Michigan should only support sensible data center legislation

    Senate Bill 237 and House Bill 4906 would give big state tax breaks to “enterprise” data centers through 2050. These bills raise serious concerns about our energy infrastructure, affordable water use, and the actual amount of jobs these facilities create.

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  • Tell the MPSC: Reject DTE’s Rate Increase

    Tell the MPSC: Reject DTE’s Rate Increase

    Our rates are already too high, and now DTE wants to raise them by another $456 million just four months after securing a $368 million rate increase. Send a message to MPSC: Reject DTE Energy’s rate increase.

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  • Thank Governor Whitmer and our lawmakers for enacting clean drinking water standards for schools

    Thank Governor Whitmer and our lawmakers for enacting clean drinking water standards for schools

    Filter First legislation requires schools and daycares to install water filter stations and monitor water quality to ensure it is safe to drink. This recently passed legislation will protect the health of children across the Great Lakes state and put parents’ minds at ease.

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  • Support Legislation for Independent Community Solar

    Support Legislation for Independent Community Solar

    Senate Bills 152 and 153 would remove unnecessary restrictions on local solar projects, making it easier for communities to generate their own clean, affordable solar energy.

    Michigan has the highest energy costs in the Midwest and some of the worst service. Community solar can help residents lower their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint.

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Healthy Great Lakes

  • Tell your lawmaker: Polluters should pay for cleanup, not taxpayers!

    Tell your lawmaker: Polluters should pay for cleanup, not taxpayers!

    With over 24,000 contaminated sites in Michigan, we need to take action and that starts with holding polluters accountable for cleaning up the messes they made.

    Send a message to your lawmakers today urging them to support legislation that would hold corporate polluters accountable for cleaning up and paying for their own messes. 

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  • Tell President Biden To Support Shutting Down Line 5

    Tell President Biden To Support Shutting Down Line 5

    Enbridge Energy is officially operating the Line 5 Pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac illegally.

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Safe Drinking Water

  • Tell Your Lawmaker: Update the building codes to save us money on our energy bills

    Tell Your Lawmaker: Update the building codes to save us money on our energy bills

    Michigan’s outdated building codes prevent crucial energy-saving upgrades that could lower monthly bills and cut energy use. Tell your lawmaker to support new building codes that would save Michiganders up to $325 annually.

    Take Action
  • Thank Governor Whitmer and our lawmakers for enacting clean drinking water standards for schools

    Thank Governor Whitmer and our lawmakers for enacting clean drinking water standards for schools

    Filter First legislation requires schools and daycares to install water filter stations and monitor water quality to ensure it is safe to drink. This recently passed legislation will protect the health of children across the Great Lakes state and put parents’ minds at ease.

    Take Action
  • Tell your lawmaker: Polluters should pay for cleanup, not taxpayers!

    Tell your lawmaker: Polluters should pay for cleanup, not taxpayers!

    With over 24,000 contaminated sites in Michigan, we need to take action and that starts with holding polluters accountable for cleaning up the messes they made.

    Send a message to your lawmakers today urging them to support legislation that would hold corporate polluters accountable for cleaning up and paying for their own messes. 

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Join the movement to protect the Great Lakes state

And we’ll show you two ways to help. Together, we can be a voice for change and protect Michigan’s land, air, water, public health, and democracy.