We spoke Friday with Margarethe Kearney, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law and Policy Center and Mike Berkowitz, Michigan Senior Campaign Representative, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign.

Topics covered:

  • How the recent SCOTUS decision in EPA v. W. Va will and won’t hamper the federal government’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants.
  • Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act for climate action in Michigan.
  • Ongoing challenges to greenhouse gas reduction in Michigan including caps on solar power, legal obstacles to community-owned solar, and gas infrastructure including (but not limited to) Enbridge Line 5.
  • Watch the video in full here!

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Nina Misuraca Ignaczak is an award-winning Metro Detroit-based editor, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She is the founder, publisher, and editor of Planet Detroit, a digital media startup focused on producing quality climate, equity, health, and environment journalism that centers grassroots voices, holds power accountable, and spotlights solutions. Planet Detroit has received awards and recognition from the Society for Professional Journalists Detroit, the Institute for Nonprofit News, and LION Publishers since its establishment in 2019. Prior to her journalism career, Nina worked in urban planning in local government and nonprofit sectors, holding a Master of Science in Natural Resource Ecology and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.