Resources
Electric Vehicles Resource Hub
This resource explains how electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and lower transportation costs for communities. It highlights the climate, health, and economic benefits of EV adoption, with a focus on policy tools, charging infrastructure, and equity considerations to ensure underserved communities can access clean transportation options.
Midwest Climate Hub
The mission of the Midwest Climate Hub is to develop science-based, region-specific information and technologies alongside USDA agencies and partners, and deliver these products to agricultural and natural resource managers that enable climate-informed decision-making. This is in alignment with the USDA mission to provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related […]
Influencing Federal Dollars for Clean Transportation
This tool kit is a grassroots advocacy guide so that everyday people can have more influence over how federal transportation dollars are spent in their communities and over transportation decisions in general.
Comprehensive Climate Action Plan – MTERA
Developed in partnership with eight Tribes in EPA Region 5, the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan includes sector-specific emissions data, GHG reduction strategies, and guidance applicable to all Tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, no matter where they are in their climate planning journey.
Transportation Planning: For People & The Climate – Lessons from the Midwest
This report draws on a review of three types of planning documents – climate plans, comprehensive land use plans, and transportation plans. These long-term guiding documents all play a role in determining the intention and direction of transportation decisions.
Organizations
Environmental Resilience Institute Indiana University
Confronting environmental change through research, education, and community collaboration
Environmental Protection Network
The Environmental Protection Network harnesses the expertise of over 650 former EPA career staff and political appointees from across the country to serve as a trusted resource, answering calls for objective analysis, scientific rigor, and a vision for a transformed 21st century EPA.
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
The regional planning organization for Southeast Michigan, providing transportation and sustainability resources such as the Commuter Connect program.
Michiana Area Council of Governments
A regional council of governments serving the Michiana area that provides planning support and technical assistance, including solar education and local readiness resources.
State of Minnesota
State government coordinating climate mitigation and resilience strategies.