The Michigan city aims to eliminate climate-warming pollution by 2030, with investments in renewable energy, public transit, home weatherization, and more.
Heat pumps are not theoretical. They’ve long existed — just not yet widely adopted in American society as a replacement for gas, partly due to upfront financial costs. They’re now a key strategy of Ann Arbor’s A2Zero plan to become carbon-neutral by 2030 to fight climate change.
Planning to lobby for changes in state law to advance city goals around human rights, gun control, climate change and more, the Ann Arbor City Council adopted a new 37-page legislative policy agenda this past week.
There are 16 communities across Michigan where local leaders are taking big swipes at the climate crisis, in many cases much faster than state and U.S. goals.
