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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Holcim U.S. owns 13 cement plants in the country. The Alpena plant will install 100 acres of solar panels to produce about 30% of electricity use. -
The federal government is giving Michigan $61 million to fill gaps in broadband service. -
Perchloroethylene is widely used, but PCE could be banned for consumer and commercial use because of known health risks. -
Only 1.02% of Michigan's in-state electricity generation comes from solar. Most surrounding states have more and are projected to continue to outpace Michigan. -
A 3,000-acre fire near Grayling is 90 percent controlled. But conditions are dry and fire danger is extremely high. -
Neighbors don't feel they received adequate notice of the planned demolition of the closed Detroit incinerator's smokestack. They're also concerned about contamination being released in the dust from demolition. -
The U.S. Senate has approved three changes to remove protections from threatened and endangered wildlife. -
The test requires a finger prick and then the sample is sent to a lab to determine levels of PFAS in a person exposed to one or more of the chemicals. -
Two bills in the Michigan Legislature could help reduce lead exposure and ensure kids are tested for lead. -
The EPA's new carbon pollution standards would require coal and natural gas burning power plants to capture CO2 emissions.
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The way J. Ellen Marsden remembers it, when she first suggested calling a new Great Lakes invasive species the quagga mussel, her colleague laughed, so… -
Climate change is altering lakes so that some fish species could be lost. Ice coverage is declining over the decades. -
The stunning beauty of Lake Michigan’s crystal clear water draws comparisons to the French Riviera. But to Dustin Van Orman, it’s a hideous sight.Van… -
J.D. Hock’s heart sank in 2018, when the state of Michigan warned it was unsafe to eat deer harvested within a five-mile radius of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda… -
Intrigued by warming winters, researchers from the University of Michigan set out in 1989 to formally measure changes in the geographical distribution of… -
It’s freezing outside and Larry Scheer is in neoprene chest waders kicking up sediment in Boyden Creek near Ann Arbor, Michigan.He’s using a fine mesh net… -
The downtown office for the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of the Chippewa Indians Fisheries Management Program is a simple, small two-story brick building. But… -
If humans continue to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at current rates, we should be prepared to say goodbye to ice-covered winters on the… -
Hope is waning for those who hoped to stick an ice shanty on Little Traverse Bay this winter. The same goes for nearby Torch and Elk lakes, two large… -
It’s the first month of a 20-year effort to replace every lead service line connecting a Michigan home to a public water supply. Already, Jeff Lampi is…
