
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Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water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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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…