Economic Development Responsibility Alliance
Fighting to protect Michigan’s water, farmland, and taxpayer rights from toxic development.
EDA of MI is a statewide grassroots lobbying nonprofit focused on protecting Michigan’s water, farmland, and taxpayer rights. We’re nonpartisan, and we’re 100% volunteer to date.
As a grassroots alliance, we work to provide support to individual communities who are battling large, toxic, and often taxpayer-funded development. This has included large-scale wind and solar energy, EV batteries, semiconductors, mineral mines, and most recently: AI data centers.
We’re also developing policy for alternative large-scale developments, in agricultural and urban communities alike. Take a look at our Regenerative Agriculture Megasite model for more info.
A lake in Green Charter Township.
Destructive Developments We're Fighting
Marshall Ford CATL EV Megasite
Marshall Ford CATL EV Megasite
Marshall Ford CATL EV Megasite
Grassroots wins
Plymouth Township Northville Downs
Plymouth Township Northville Downs
Plymouth Township Northville Downs
The Regenerative Agriculture MEgasite
A proposal for alternative economic development
What kinds of development do Michigan’s communities want to see instead of heavy industrial and energy projects? We’ve answered that question in our report, the Case for the Regenerative Agriculture Megasite in Michigan.
Are you folks against Green Energy?
No. We're actually trying to save the planet's last green spaces.
We here in Marshall, and Big Rapids, and other rural Michigan communities facing similar projects are stewards for not just some of the richest agricultural land in the world, but also for the Lake Michigan watershed–which is this nation’s most precious, and most valuable, natural resource.
To propose to build a 1,900 acre EV megasite along the banks of the Kalamazoo River, or to doze a wetlands a few football fields away from the Muskegon River to build an EV battery plant that sucks up over 715,000 gallons of water per day, and to tell us that it’s because it’s GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT is just gaslighting.
This isn’t “Green”. This is an environmental catastrophe.
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