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 Michigan Aggregates Association wants mining approval taken from local governments and given to the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). -
The U.S. EPA proposes federal baseline water quality standards for lakes and streams on reservations. -
Native American tribes are working with university researchers and others to determine why whitefish, an important source of protein, is declining. -
The State of Ohio has until June 30 to set restrictions. If it doesn't, the U.S. EPA is required to do it. -
Michigan DNR proposes adding rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and others to lethal nuisance regulationsThe proposal would allow landowners to kill year-round in unlimited numbers animals that are about to damage property without first getting a permit. -
The University of Michigan will launch a center to retrain workers, help develop technology and do some of its own research and development in the electric vehicle field. -
Hundreds of trucks were allegedly altered both mechanically and via computer deletions to prevent emissions controls. -
Tick season is here. If you're in the great outdoors, you're advised to take precautions. -
Anesthesiologists are beginning to use anesthetics that don't contribute as greatly to climate change. -
The clean energy group Climate Power says Michigan will see thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in clean tech jobs.
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
As climate change complicates Lake Erie's algae problem, scientists say farmer must do far more to reduce phosphorus runoff. But will enough farmers… -
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… -
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…
