Michigan utilities have a series of decisions to make in the coming years: pour money into updating their old, dirty coal plants, or replace those plants with investments in cleaner resources such as energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Retiring Michigan Coal
Michigan has a large, old fleet of coal fired power plants that mostly lacks the modern pollution controls required by existing and imminent federal environmental regulations.
DTE Energy
DTE Energy owns and operates four of the nine oldest coal plants in Michigan, including Trenton Channel and River Rouge.
Toxic Trash Exposed: Coal Ash Pollution in Michigan
Water defines, and is central, to Michigan’s economy. Major tourism, agriculture, and fishing industries depend on the health of rivers, lakes, and streams. The Great Lakes contain over 20% of the world’s usable fresh surface water . Unfortunately unmitigated coal ash pollution is a major threat to the health of the state’s water and economy.
Clean Water Action applauds federal court holding DTE Energy accountable for pollution
LANSING, Mich. – Clean Water Action today applauded the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for its ruling yesterday that DTE Energy should have obtained a permit for increasing emissions after the company expanded its Monroe power plant in 2010.
