Elinor Epperson
Elinor Epperson is an environment intern through the Great Lakes News Collaborative. She is wrapping up her master's degree in journalism at Michigan State University. She hopes to do investigative and longform journalism once she gets her sea legs.
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As more green infrastructure projects are installed across the state, more workers are needed to maintain them. Local organizations offer training for workers who want to expand their skills. -
Three Michigan cities won federal funds to support more sustainable transportation. -
On this day in 1984, a University of Michigan graduate student reported groundwater contamination to state authorities. -
Michigan’s recycling rate has increased for the third year in a row, but still lags behind national average. -
Extreme heat in the Great Lakes region will only become more frequent as climate change warms the oceans, lakes and air, a University of Michigan climate expert said. -
A potentially dangerous hot spell arrives in Michigan Monday, bringing additional risk to outdoor workers and manual laborers. -
Officials from several levels of government gathered in Ann Arbor Monday afternoon to highlight the benefits of the EPA's Clean School Bus program. -
Three southeast Michigan watershed councils combine resources to make it easier for residents and municipalities to reduce rainwater runoff. -
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been fighting an invasion of red swamp crayfish since they first appeared in the state in 2017. -
What to do — and what not to do — with your unwanted aquarium and water garden species.
