Senate, Michigan
Mike Rogers earned an 8% lifetime score on the LCV National Environmental Scorecard across his 14 years representing Michigan’s 8th District (2001–2015). He appeared on the Dirty Dozen list back in 2000 when he originally ran for the House seat because of his anti-environmental record in the state legislature. Financial disclosures show Rogers personally holds between $1.7 million and $2.6 million in tech investments positioned to benefit from a data center boom — including up to $250,000 in a Blackstone real estate trust where data centers now make up 29% of the portfolio, up from just 1% in 2020, plus an advisory role at a venture capital firm with stakes in dozens of AI-related companies (The Lever). Only after that financial stake was reported did Rogers reverse course days later and endorse a one-year moratorium on new Michigan data centers. Over his congressional career Rogers also took roughly $693,000 in direct contributions from oil and gas industry donors, and his 2026 campaign and allied super PAC have continued taking fossil-fuel money, including from Chevron’s PAC and oil financier Tim Dunn.
