Press Releases Tagged State Climate Action
NEW REPORT: Project 2025 Will Lead to Massive Job Losses and Increased Energy Costs in Michigan
Today, non-partisan analysts at Energy Innovation released new modeling detailing the potential impacts of Project 2025 in each state. The new analysis compares two scenarios—one in which the radical Project 2025 agenda is implemented and another where the historic climate achievements of the Biden-Harris administration are protected and recent state...
NEW REPORT: Michigan’s New Clean Energy Laws Will Lower Household Energy Costs and Secure Billions in Federal Funding
Today, 5 Lakes Energy released “Michigan’s Clean Energy Economic Comeback,” a new independent modeling report providing local-level analysis of the economic impact of the state’s new clean energy laws in each of Michigan’s ten prosperity regions. Following the passage of last year’s historic clean energy package, the modeling projects Michigan’s...
NEW POLL: Pennsylvania Voters Strongly Support Significantly Increasing Clean Energy Use
Today, Evergreen Action, joined by PennEnvironment, Conservation Voters of PA, and Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance, released new polling from Global Strategy Group that shows a wide bipartisan majority of Pennsylvania voters support the increased usage of clean energy and believe its expansion will boost Pennsylvania’s economy and improve the reliability...
NEW VIDEO: How Clean Energy Is Changing Lives in Detroit
This morning, Evergreen Collaborative released a new video sharing the story of Alijah Thomas, a home energy assessor in Detroit, who is working to make a difference and change his community for the better. Following last year’s historic legislative session and an influx of federal funding from the Inflation Reduction...
Evergreen Praises PA House Leaders for Holding First Hearing on Gov. Shapiro’s Energy Portfolio Standard
This morning, the Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its first hearing on the Pennsylvania Reliable Energy Sustainability Standards Act (PRESS), introduced by Rep. Danielle Friel Otten (HB 2777) to implement Gov. Josh Shapiro’s plan to increase clean energy standards in Pennsylvania. In response, Evergreen Action Deputy...
Michigan Legislature Must Move to Advance Historic Transit Investments
The Michigan House of Representatives is soon expected to consider a legislative package that would make the largest sustained investment in transit in Michigan's history. The package includes a bill that would create a $2 billion transit funding program aimed at building new rapid transit bus routes and commuter rail...
Evergreen Launches New Michigan and Wisconsin TV Ads With Governors Highlighting Local Benefits of IRA
Seven-figure Ad Buy in Michigan and Wisconsin Markets Feature Govs. Whitmer, Evers Talking About Clean Energy Progress Today, Evergreen Collaborative launched a new ad campaign highlighting the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) impact on local economies and communities in Michigan and Wisconsin. The new ads, featuring Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and...
Michiganders Block Fossil Fuel-Backed Initiative from 2024 Ballot
Dark Money-funded Effort Faces Massive Defeat in Effort to Repeal Key Siting Provision in Gov. Whitmer’s Clean Energy Laws Today, Michiganders blocked Citizens for Local Choice’s ballot initiative on siting from qualifying for the 2024 ballot, dealing a massive blow to the dark money and fossil fuel-funded effort to curtail...
Labor, Climate, and Community Leaders Back Pennsylvania DEP Effort to Lower Industrial Climate Pollution and Create Jobs
Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions (RISE PA) Application for Federal Funding Could Bring in $475M in Investment to PA, Create 6,000 Jobs, and Eliminate 5.2 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Pollution Carnegie, PA —Today, the Shapiro administration and local elected officials, labor unions, and climate groups came together in Allegheny County to...
Evergreen Statement on Gov. Shapiro’s Proposed Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards
Today, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a new proposal to accelerate clean energy deployment in Pennsylvania. The proposed reforms to the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) would increase alternative energy requirements to 50 percent by 2035, from the previous standard’s 10.5 percent requirement. At least 35 percent of that energy would...