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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Holcim U.S. owns 13 cement plants in the country. The Alpena plant will install 100 acres of solar panels to produce about 30% of electricity use. -
The federal government is giving Michigan $61 million to fill gaps in broadband service. -
Perchloroethylene is widely used, but PCE could be banned for consumer and commercial use because of known health risks. -
Only 1.02% of Michigan's in-state electricity generation comes from solar. Most surrounding states have more and are projected to continue to outpace Michigan. -
A 3,000-acre fire near Grayling is 90 percent controlled. But conditions are dry and fire danger is extremely high. -
Neighbors don't feel they received adequate notice of the planned demolition of the closed Detroit incinerator's smokestack. They're also concerned about contamination being released in the dust from demolition. -
The U.S. Senate has approved three changes to remove protections from threatened and endangered wildlife. -
The test requires a finger prick and then the sample is sent to a lab to determine levels of PFAS in a person exposed to one or more of the chemicals. -
Two bills in the Michigan Legislature could help reduce lead exposure and ensure kids are tested for lead. -
The EPA's new carbon pollution standards would require coal and natural gas burning power plants to capture CO2 emissions.
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Methane is one of the big three greenhouse gasses, next to carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.Peter Groffman is a professor at the City University of New… -
Dry months of the year have been getting hotter in large parts of the U.S.Felicia Chiang is the lead author of a new study on droughts and climate change,… -
If you’re out on a lake this summer and you stumble on a blob that looks like an alien life form, it could actually be a good thing.Jo Latimore got an… -
Asbestos is known to cause cancer. It’s banned for some uses in the U.S., but it’s not entirely banned.The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a… -
It’s breeding season for monarch butterflies, and government officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico want your help collecting data on them.The second… -
There's a scene in the 1967 film The Graduate where a well-meaning friend of the family pulls Dustin Hoffman's character aside at his graduation party,… -
The state Legislature is considering bills that would speed up wetland restoration in Michigan.“Wetlands are nature’s answer to a lot of our societal woes… -
More than 16,000 ticks have arrived in Nate Nieto’s mailbox.He’s an associate professor of microbiology at Northern Arizona University, and he launched a… -
Wind energy became popular because it can reduce the need for polluting coal and gas generated electricity. But, things are shifting now.“The primary… -
New tariffs are putting some Michigan newspapers and printers at risk of going out of business.There’s more than a little irony in the fact that a state…
