Clean Energy Now is a collaboration of groups in Michigan
working to keep new, dirty and expensive coal plants out of MI
and move our state towards a clean energy future. It’s time for
Michigan’s utilities to move into the 21st Century and away from
coal. Each year, Michigan sends over $1.36 billion out of state
to import coal for unneeded and uneconomic coal-fired power
plants. Our money goes out of state, and we’re left with the
enormous threats to Michigan’s health and environment by relying
on coal-fired power plants. Michigan can’t afford the enormous
health and environmental threats, we can’t afford the
skyrocketing costs, and we can’t afford to harness ourselves to
dirty coal. Jobs for clean and renewable energy are rare bright
spot in Michigan’s economy. Between 2005 and 2008, Michigan’s
Green Jobs sector was the only part of our economy that actually
grew. C Our state can create hundreds of sustainable, family
wage jobs by investing in energy saving measures as well as
renewable resources. Renewable