
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 progeny of lake sturgeon from Michigan will be released into the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland, Ohio.
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Buying wetlands on the commercial market is expensive. The state of Michigan set up a program to give municipal road agencies a way to mitigate damage to wetlands more cheaply.
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The National Wildlife Federation says Enbridge did not follow procedures to apply for a wildlife habitat designation for corporations. Instead it used the application residents use to certify their backyards.
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Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller opposes the statewide monthly fee of $2, saying such a program already exists in her county. She wants the legislation to allow counties to opt-out.
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Environmentalists say the Ohio plan will not work because it doesn't hold agriculture responsible for the runoff from fields using manure from factory farms as fertilizer.
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Legislators are crafting a set of bills that would deal with a number issues regarding water affordability and ending water shut-offs for low income households.
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Business groups and environmental groups filed amicus briefs in a case the Supreme Court will settle regarding manure spreading on farm fields.
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Environmental groups have asked the Department of Energy to require an Environmental Impact Statement to ensure the shuttered Palisades nuclear plant is safe before giving it $1 billion dollars to restart the power plant.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to establish a center to research ways to make communities along water shared by countries more resilient to climate change.
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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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As Canadian officials lobbied a Michigan Senate committee in March to keep the Line 5 pipeline open, Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) grew frustrated…
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The floodwaters have receded from Jefferson Chalmers for now, but evidence of the neighborhood’s recent crisis is hard to miss:Dried algae on the…
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Climate change in the Great Lakes region means more intense storms. Already some towns are finding they’re flooding where they never have before. One city…
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Midland and other cities were hit hard by a flood caused by heavy rains and the failure of a weak dam.More than 2,500 homes were damaged. There was an…
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Birds are beginning to migrate north. The Great Lakes flyway means a large number of those birds will be flying over Michigan. It also means at night…
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Michigan's Indigenous communities hold long-standing legal right to protect lands and waters.On any given day, Jacques LeBlanc Jr. spends as many as 14…
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Deep below the cold, dark surface of Lake Superior, sensors strung like pearls along a vertical steel cable sway with the currents. Recording the lake’s…
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As climate change complicates Lake Erie's algae problem, scientists say farmer must do far more to reduce phosphorus runoff. But will enough farmers…
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In Michigan, with public health departments fully occupied with COVID-19, septic systems have been pushed back as a priority.But even before COVID-19, it…
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Since the late 1980s, four of the five Great Lakes have played host to an increasing number of invasive mussels. First came zebra mussels, followed…