
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).
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The U.S. EPA proposes federal baseline water quality standards for lakes and streams on reservations.
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Native American tribes are working with university researchers and others to determine why whitefish, an important source of protein, is declining.
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The State of Ohio has until June 30 to set restrictions. If it doesn't, the U.S. EPA is required to do it.
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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.
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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.
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Hundreds of trucks were allegedly altered both mechanically and via computer deletions to prevent emissions controls.
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Tick season is here. If you're in the great outdoors, you're advised to take precautions.
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Anesthesiologists are beginning to use anesthetics that don't contribute as greatly to climate change.
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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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The last major outbreak of avian botulism on Lake Michigan was in 2016, when hundreds of dead birds washed up on shore. The bacterial disease has affected…
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The U.S. and Canada are working to restore populations of a prehistoric fish in the Great Lakes that was nearly wiped out. We went out with a crew of…
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Each year hundreds of millions of birds die in the U.S. after colliding with windows. Skyscrapers are not the chief cause, but mostly mid-rise buildings.…
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In 2016, Michigan got an important new tool in the growing effort to limit global heating.The state's new energy law requires regulated utilities, for the…
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You see it all the time in city streams and rivers: all kinds of trash, much of it plastic, bobbing along the edge of the water. You know it’s not right.…
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy indicates there are 1.4 million homes in Michigan that are not hooked up to a sewer…
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Some cities in Michigan are putting together climate change action plans. Part of that is making everything more energy efficient in order to reduce the…
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Margaret Lewis is a retired court reporter who lives in a big, older home in Highland Park -- the kind you say has "good bones," because it needs some…
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More than four million people crossed the Straits of Mackinac last year. But they are also one of the busiest migration spots for raptors, or birds of…
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China is not taking as much U.S. recycled material as it has in the past. The Chinese economy is slowing down and it doesn’t need to import as much paper…