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After Thanksgiving the Michigan legislature resumed for a three-day lame duck session, the period after the election but before newly elected lawmakers take office in January. For the most part, this year’s lame duck session was “lame”, but that...

Despite decades of failure to recycle more than a very small percentage of its plastic packaging, the Coca-Cola Company is again trying to sell people on its recycling efforts. Coca-Cola has been declared the worst plastic polluter in the world...

  Left: Huron Valley Group Outing, February 2022, Nan Weston Preserve at Sharon Hollow. Photo by John Metzler. Right: Saux Trail Head, Marquette County. Photo by John Rebers. For the past 130 years, Sierra Club outings have...

This is a great year to start a Black Friday tradition of getting family and friends into the outdoors. The leftovers and shopping can wait while everyone enjoys and explores wonderful places in the Great Lakes State.  Whether it is a short...

For eight years Michigan Chapter Director Gail Philbin has led the Michigan Sierra Club with quiet grace. The Chapter’s successes during her tenure speak volumes about her skill and passion for protecting the Great Lakes state. As Gail prepares...

Climate won the Michigan midterms. Voters reelected environmental champions Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Not only that, voters put a pro-environment majority in control of the...

Michigan’s voting laws have changed in recent years. Along with this long-awaited expansion to voters’ rights, Michigan voters now have to keep a new list of important deadlines and procedures in mind when voting.  In this short webinar,...

The fossil fuel industry promotes natural gas as a bridge fuel, an energy source that emits fewer carbon emissions than coal when burned. The claim is it is a bridge fuel until enough solar and wind electrical generation can be built. Natural...

The display of spectacular leaf colors in autumn across Michigan is an opportunity to appreciate Michigan’s extraordinary forests and native trees. The colors help viewers pick out different deciduous trees but these few weeks of peak color...

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has approved Consumers Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) that secures 2025 as the retirement date for the utility's J.H. Campbell coal plant, 15 years earlier than previously planned. The...