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.
-
The Michigan Aggregates Association wants mining approval taken from local governments and given to the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). -
The U.S. EPA proposes federal baseline water quality standards for lakes and streams on reservations. -
Native American tribes are working with university researchers and others to determine why whitefish, an important source of protein, is declining. -
The State of Ohio has until June 30 to set restrictions. If it doesn't, the U.S. EPA is required to do it. -
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. -
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. -
Hundreds of trucks were allegedly altered both mechanically and via computer deletions to prevent emissions controls. -
Tick season is here. If you're in the great outdoors, you're advised to take precautions. -
Anesthesiologists are beginning to use anesthetics that don't contribute as greatly to climate change. -
The clean energy group Climate Power says Michigan will see thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in clean tech jobs.
-
One evening in the late 1800s, a lighthouse keeper named John Herman was drinking, as he usually did, when he decided to play a prank on his assistant.… -
On a calm morning in late summer 2019, Jim Bailey was kayaking on Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ontario, when he found himself paddling through thick… -
When you visit one of the Great Lakes, whether it’s a sandy beach or a rocky coastline, it’s hard to imagine how something so big could be affected so profoundly by alien invasive species, or pollution, or climate change. -
Brian Owens is with Great Lakes Now.Natural populations of oil-degrading bacteria could help to clean up freshwater rivers and lakes after spills from… -
It’s just before 6 p.m. on a breezy Wednesday evening in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Department of Water Management staffers… -
In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project… -
What does Michigan’s future look like if we adequately prepare the state’s water resources for climate change? Goodbye to septics and shorehugging homes.… -
Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) are forecasting the… -
Water ran from a fire hydrant, down the street and into a recently redesigned street median in Detroit last week.It was both unassuming and a… -
Some coal fired power plants are being closed. Still, most of Michigan’s utilities heavily rely on coal.“In 2019, coal still fueled the largest share of…
