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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Electric vehicles pay a surcharge on registration fees. Nearly everyone believes there are fairer ways to assess a fee to help pay for roads. Choosing one is the difficult part. -
The Great Lakes Commission has a plan to guide the states and provinces surrounding the Great Lakes toward protecting their communities from the climate-change damage. -
Making a classic cocktail with a "warm & savory" gin from Green Door Distilling in Kalamazoo. -
Money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is dedicated to cleaning up so-called "orphan wells" in Michigan. -
NOAA, USDOT, and other agencies are launching a pilot program to develop methods for integrating equity into planning decisions regarding urban flooding. -
Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell has introduced the Recovering America's Wildlife Act every session since she was elected eight years ago. It failed to pass again. She plans to reintroduce it next session. -
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking you to report any wild turkeys you see in the month of January. -
Recycling electronic waste in Michigan is not simple. Here's how you do it. -
The Flood Level Observation, Operations, and Decision Support Act (FLOODS) was signed into law by President Biden. Michigan U.S. Senator Gary Peters introduced the bill. -
Wrapping paper and cardboard boxes can be recycled with little effort. Other holiday-related trash cannot.
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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… -
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… -
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.… -
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… -
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.… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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…
