
The Environment Report
The Environment Report, hosted by Lester Graham, explores the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives of people in Michigan.
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The progeny of lake sturgeon from Michigan will be released into the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland, Ohio.
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Buying wetlands on the commercial market is expensive. The state of Michigan set up a program to give municipal road agencies a way to mitigate damage to wetlands more cheaply.
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The National Wildlife Federation says Enbridge did not follow procedures to apply for a wildlife habitat designation for corporations. Instead it used the application residents use to certify their backyards.
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Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller opposes the statewide monthly fee of $2, saying such a program already exists in her county. She wants the legislation to allow counties to opt-out.
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Environmentalists say the Ohio plan will not work because it doesn't hold agriculture responsible for the runoff from fields using manure from factory farms as fertilizer.
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Legislators are crafting a set of bills that would deal with a number issues regarding water affordability and ending water shut-offs for low income households.
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Business groups and environmental groups filed amicus briefs in a case the Supreme Court will settle regarding manure spreading on farm fields.
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Environmental groups have asked the Department of Energy to require an Environmental Impact Statement to ensure the shuttered Palisades nuclear plant is safe before giving it $1 billion dollars to restart the power plant.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to establish a center to research ways to make communities along water shared by countries more resilient to climate change.
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Phosphorus pollution feeds cyanobacterial blooms in the western basin of Lake Erie. Ohio submitted a plan to reduce phosphorus runoff, but many believe it will fail.
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The monarch butterflies that are emerging right now in Michigan have a long trip ahead of them.They’ll fly several thousand miles to the oyamel fir…
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Lake whitefish are the most important commercial fish species in Michigan.But in the last decade, state biologists say fishers are harvesting about a…
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The creatures that live with us in cities – things like spiders, owls, lizards and mice – are evolving over time.A new set of studies in a special issue…
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Researchers have found that some of the most common reptiles and amphibians that people own as pets are also the most likely to be released into the…
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Public health experts want us to pay more attention to the effects of climate change on kids.Madeleine Thomson is a senior research scientist at the…
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Many Americans are ok with genetic engineering of animals if it benefits human health. But a lot of people oppose other uses of the technology. Those are…
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We have a rattlesnake in Michigan called the eastern massasauga. It’s listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.One of the threats…
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The global market for recycling has changed dramatically over the last year, and it’s already trickling down to what happens at the curb.China used to…
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Water use in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level in about 45 years.But the U.S. Geological Survey found 12 states accounted for more than 50% of the…
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Scientists are creating an experimental warning system for meteotsunamis in the Great Lakes.Meteotsunamis are potentially dangerous waves that are driven…