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 Republican-led House of Representatives is proposing to cut funds for the EPA, water distribution system repairs, and pollution cleanup. -
The Michigan park system had an estimated $300 million worth of deferred maintenance. ARPA money is providing $250 million worth of improvements. -
NOAA satellite images and a research vessel sampling Lake Erie water both found evidence of harmful algal blooms on July 5, a much earlier date than typical. -
Some foam on the river is caused by PFAS, a class of chemicals that can cause health effects after prolonged exposure. -
An oily sheen is spread a quarter mile along the Flint River at Whaley Park. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has staff on site. -
NOAA scientists and other researcher project that cyanobacterial blooms will not be a widespread this summer in the western basin of Lake Erie. -
Information about air quality is being updated via several government sites. Here's where you can go for answers and how the sites work. -
Federal protections for many wetlands have been removed. Some states have laws to protect those wetlands, but some are stronger than others. -
The USDA provides funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources which uses some of that money to kill beavers. The DNR believes beavers are destructive to trout streams. -
A federal judge ordered a segment of Line 5 to be moved within three years. Enbridge said it will appeal.
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On Thursday, environmental groups and Native Americans plan to present Enbridge Energy with symbolic eviction notices. They want Enbridge to abide by… -
When Monica Evans gets together with her friends they talk economics, politics, the weather. They also discuss a subject that arises periodically in the… -
Enbridge Energy technically has one more day to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, but even the pipeline’s most vocal opponents… -
There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans. But plastic pollution is also affecting the Great Lakes. A study out of the… -
Microplastic pollution has been building up in the Great Lakes for at least four decades, but our understanding of its impact on fish and other aquatic… -
Access to ample water supplies could make Michigan a climate refuge. That scenario is attracting considerable attention in the Great Lakes State.But… -
Building, maintaining, and operating a water and sewer system is generally the most expensive item on a small town’s budget.The U.S. Department of… -
Dana Serafin still hauls in 20,000-pound boatloads of whitefish to supply regional restaurants and markets, but in recent years, the Saginaw Bay fisherman… -
Right now, scientists are on a ship taking samples and measurements of the Great Lakes. They’re trying to determine how the lakes will fare this year and… -
Diminished surface ice is just the beginning: Climate change is warming Lake Michigan and other big lakes all the way down to their chilly depths,…
