environmental clean up

High levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been uncovered during a cleanup in the River Raisin, reports Charles Slat of the Monroe News:PCBs,…

Earlier this week, there was a landslide at a coal-burning power plant in Wisconsin. We Energies operates the plant. On their property, there’s a ravine…

Cleanup crews are collecting oil that remains at the bottom of the Kalamazoo River this week.It’s been nearly a year since more than 840,000 gallons of…

Authorities say about 20,000 gallons of raw sewage flowed into the Kalamazoo River following a power outage at a Battle Creek wastewater plant. The Battle…

This week’s guest for “What’s Working” is Julie Powers, the Director of the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council. Ms. Powers has been involved in the…

The clean-up of industrial waste in Muskegon Lake will start next month. The lake is contaminated with mercury and other pollutants that get into fish and…

All the unclaimed deposits from Michigan cans and bottles really add up. The state gets about $12 million a year out of it.A small amount of this money…