Ours to Protect - Lansing

Wherever you call home, we share this core belief. Michigan is ours to protect.

We’re all troubled by a federal agenda aimed to deregulate, defund and threaten the things we hold close: our air, waters, people and places we love. Repairing that federal architecture may take a generation—so we Michiganders have to step up. And the Michigan Environmental Council has the expertise and immense network to do just that. The Ours to Protect event series invites you into a conversation about what those solutions look like, and how you can help protect our state.

This event will focus on our work to fight for Michigan’s clean energy future amidst the rise of AI, data centers and a federal push for investment in dirty energy sources. In July, the federal administration issued an executive order to ramp up the production of large-scale industrial plants like data centers and the methane gas plants that power them to support big tech’s ever increasing energy demand—despite the known climate and water impacts of these developments.

That’s why we’re working with Michigan lawmakers to strengthen regulations on incoming data centers; intervening in utility resource planning to ensure they’re investing in clean energy production when agreeing to power these sites; and working to protect Michiganders from the passed on costs of these technologies. Because the Capitol City—and all of Michigan—is ours to protect.