A solar array at Domino’s Farms near Ann Arbor, Michigan. Image: Mark Houston
Clean energy stories from six Great Lakes states are among those reported by an unusual collaboration of 14 journalists at Midwest news outlets.
The effort is led by Inside Climate News, a non-profit news service that runs a National Environment Reporting Network. The goal: provide Midwest readers with a local perspective on climate change.
The project is called Middle America’s Low-Hanging Carbon: The Search for Greenhouse Gas Cuts From the Grid, Agriculture and Transportation. See summary.
Among the stories with particular relevance to the Great Lakes region:
- Minnesota looks at zero-carbon transportation (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
- How an Illinois farm threatened by climate change is limiting its role in causing it. (Harvest Media)
- An Indiana church fights to save low-income seniors money with solar energy. (Indiana Environmental Reporter)
- As rooftop solar rises, there is a battle over who owns Michigan’s renewable energy future. (Bridge Magazine)
- Here’s how Ohio farmers are cutting their carbon footprint (The Columbus Dispatch)
- Two enormous Michigan utilities pursue different paths to decarbonization (Michigan Radio)
- Wisconsin residents seek stake in clean energy transition (Wisconsin State Journal)