
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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Smaller and less complex nuclear power plants are being considered at sites across the country.
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources required hunters to report kills rather than relying on a mailed survey to a sampling of hunters.
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Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking water supplies.
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Washtenaw County residents are concerned about a proposed rock, sand, and gravel mine.
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A new report suggests Michigan and Ohio will fail to reduce nutrient runoff by 40% as agreed upon.
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Renewable energy such as solar and wind are well known, but without efficient systems such as geothermal, energy is wasted.
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Years-long droughts in the West have those states eyeing the Midwest for water.
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Heavy industrial activity has been operating along parts of the Detroit and Rouge rivers for decades. The legacy it's left is up to 5.1 million cubic meters of contaminated sediment.
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Consumers Energy is submitting a draft habitat conservation plan and draft environmental assessment about minimizing deaths and supporting habitats of endangered bats.
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The next phase of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will include working with people, public health, and economic impacts.
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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…