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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University of Michigan economists say Michigan's economy will strengthen once the Federal Reserve begins to lower interest rates. -
Researching 60 years of winters in the Great Lakes finds trends toward warmer, wetter storms and more weather variability. -
Michigan is removing some of its abandoned and obsolete dams. The benefits include cleaning up pollution and restoring nature. -
It's been ten years since Toledo issued a 'don not drink' order for its water system for three days due to cyanobacterial blooms near its water intake in Lake Erie. The blooms are not any worse, but they are not any less. -
Dow is getting $120 million and tax exemptions as part of a package from the state of Michigan that Governor Gretchen Whitmer says will protect 5,000 jobs. -
AmeriCorps has created a Forest Corps as part of a larger effort to combat the effects of climate change. -
Michigan gets a $129 million US EPA grant to assist local governments and tribes in siting, zoning, and permitting utility-scale renewable energy projects. -
Hotter days make heat exhaustion a greater hazard for kids. Hotter days also can mean more ozone pollution and that leads to lung impairments. Unusual weather events, particularly storms that cause flooding, add stress to children's lives. -
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services trumpets improvements noted in a follow-up audit from the Office of the Auditor General, but said the OAG's report was a disservice to the public. -
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is using a couple of roving robots on tracks to sift through the sand on beaches, cleaning up debris.
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There’s a newly discovered kind of bacteria that can cause Lyme disease, Borrelia mayonii. Scientists have run tests to find out how long it takes to… -
Freshwater lakes provide many things: water for crops, recreation, power plants, and of course, fish. But a new study argues we don’t value those… -
Long-term exposure to certain kinds of air pollution increases the risk of premature death in Americans over 65 years old. That finding holds true even at… -
State officials want hunters to shoot more deer in northeastern lower Michigan.Infected deer in the area spread a disease called bovine tuberculosis. It… -
A century-old legacy of Flint’s industrial past is the focus of a major cleanup project this summer.The Flint River is the main artery flowing through… -
If you’re in the U.P. this summer, you can give back to Lake Superior.There’s a new project called the Lake Superior Volunteer Corps.Emily Goodman is with… -
The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice is meant to defend communities that face a disproportionate share of the effects of pollution. But that office’s… -
This week, experts are getting together in Ann Arbor to make a warning system for meteotsunamis in the Great Lakes. We have on average 106 meteotsunamis… -
New charges in the Flint water crisis are connected to the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak.Five current and former government officials are now facing… -
A majority of Americans believe states should take the lead to address climate change if the federal government fails to act.That’s one of the findings of…
