
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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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 Michigan Attorney General's office sued the Grand Rapids airport authority on behalf of EGLE over a dispute on responsibility for PFAS contamination.
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The Home Heating Credit is to help low-income families pay some of their heating expenses.
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The National Wildlife Federation verified it gave a portion of Talmadge Creek a "Certified Wildlife Habitat" for restoration from an Enbridge oil spill 13 years ago. It also called on the pipeline company to shut down its 70 year old Line 5 pipeline.
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Michigan is not taking advantage of a USDA grant and loan program for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements.
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The five-county Metropark system is establishing more natural areas to slow stormwater to prevent flooding in neighborhoods and cities.
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As researchers learn more about the hazards of plastics and microplastics in the Great Lakes, it's becoming clear Canada and the U.S. need to cooperate in stopping the pollution.
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An appeals court ruled the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy did not go through all the steps required by law when it made its PFAS rule.
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Researchers are studying how much of cyanobacterial toxins become airborne. They say breathing in the toxins is much worse than ingesting them.
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Two decades of study reveals a complex combination of factors causing large cyanobacterial blooms and their toxicity. Government incentives to reduce nutrient pollution from farms have not been enough to solve the problem so far.
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The climate solutions caucus in the U.S. House is a group of more than 60 Democrats and Republicans who want to address climate change. Representative…
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Piping plovers are little white and gray shorebirds. You might’ve seen them running around on the beach.Sarah Saunders is a post-doctoral researcher at…
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Health experts say we can catch the flu if someone coughs near us. But now there’s evidence we can spread the influenza virus into the air just by…
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Scientists have found organic matter from toxic blooms in the Great Lakes can get airborne.Andrew Ault is an assistant professor at the University of…
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At least 14 communities in Michigan have water contaminated with a family of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.One of those…
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A new study in the journal Science finds there are genetic differences in yellow warblers that live in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, and some of…
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More than three centuries of thriving marine commerce and those notorious storms in the Great Lakes have given Michigan a wealth of historic shipwrecks.…
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There’s too much salt getting into our rivers and streams.A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds over the past 50 years,…
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Scientists might have found a new way to combat white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by a fungus killing millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada.Jon…
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Streams can tell us a lot about the health of an ecosystem. But some researchers say we can do a better job of paying attention to those streams.Jay…