
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 Brandon Road Interbasin Project is to be a barrier preventing invasive alien fish in the Mississippi River system from getting into the Great Lakes. Illinois' delay in signing could delay the whole project.
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has told Fremont Regional Digester that it needs a different permit than the one it has now to apply its liquid waste on farm fields.
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The Michigan Department of Transportation wants feedback through a survey regarding songs from Detroit artists or those who were recorded at United Sound Systems Recording Studios.
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The use of decabromodiphenyl ether was restricted in 2021. The EPA wants new protections for workers and water in the manufacture of decaBDE.
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A study in the journal Science estimates particulate matter (PM 2.5) from coal increases potential premature death twice as often as particulate matter from other sources.
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Michigan Department of Natural Resources asks the public to notify the agency if they spot a black bear den. It's part of a program to place orphaned cubs with a mother bear.
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This documentary of the 1948 presidential campaigns was released on the 75th anniversary of the race. The candidates were Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Henry Wallace, and Strom Thurmond.
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Water quality sensors in Lake Erie are being networked to make more data accessible to researchers and government agencies, as well as the public.
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Holtec International is in discussions with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission about permits to build a small modular nuclear reactor at Palisades.
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Hundreds of Michigan nature photos were submitted to The Nature Conservancy for the first statewide contest. They are also entered in the global contest.
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Last year, the Trump administration announced it would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, and repeal the Clean Power Plan, or CPP. That’s…
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80,945 against to 75 in favor.These numbers show the scope of the public opposition to a new proposal from Nestle.The company wants to be able to pump a…
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Early in February, Eastern Michigan University canceled classes due to a sloppy snowstorm. But it didn’t cancel a big event it had planned for a long time…
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is moving forward with proposed changes to the lead and copper rule. If approved, Michigan would hold the…
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Last month, the state of Michigan declared Flint’s drinking water quality "restored." To get to this point, it’s taken, among other things, more than…
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Cypress Creek Renewables has been lining up farmland in Michigan for more than a year now.The object? Leases for enough land to install several hundred…
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Low-income, rural areas are the most vulnerable to drinking water quality violations that could affect people’s health, according to a new nationwide…
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This month, hundreds of spear fishers went to Black Lake in northern Michigan. They competed to catch just six lake sturgeon before the fishing season…
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People who live in Oscoda are concerned about foam containing toxic chemicals known as per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – that keeps appearing…
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Insecticides widely used on farms, lawns and gardens — known as neonicotinoids — are showing up in rivers across the Great Lakes region.Michelle Hladik, a…