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UM-Dearborn, Detroit Schools Pollution Study Aided by AT&T Award
University of Michigan-Dearborn researchers along with teachers and students from Detroit Public Schools have kicked off a research project, funded in part through an award from AT&T, to study...
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SEMCOG: Southeast Michigan Air Quality Has Improved
DETROIT (WWJ) – For the second straight year, air quality in Southeast Michigan has improved, according to data collected at air monitoring stations throughout the region. SEMCOG, the Southeast...
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UM Study: Biodiversity Improves Water Quality By ‘Divison Of Labor’
Biologically diverse streams are better at cleaning up pollutants than less rich waterways, and a University of Michigan ecologist says he has uncovered the long-sought mechanism that explains why this...
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State Of The Air: Improving Though Still Polluted
LANSING (WWJ) – Michigan residents continue to breathe dangerous levels of air pollution, despite positive nationwide trends toward cleaner air, according to the American Lung Association’s annual...
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Ozone Action Day
DETROIT (WWJ) – Another scorcher of a day is on tap throughout Metro Detroit, and there’s a heat advisory in effect because of the steamy weather until midnight. Wednesday also marks the season’s first...
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EPA Takes Public Comment On 10 Mile Drain Clean Up Plan
ST. CLAIR SHORES (WWJ) – The Environmental Protection Agency is ready to share details of a temporary plan to contain and clean up PCB contamination at the 10 Mile drain in St. Clair Shores. Residents...
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EPA Will Spend $6M Hiring Unemployed For Clean-Up Projects
DETROIT (WWJ) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will spend $6 million to hire unemployed people who can work on Great Lakes cleanup projects. Congress has appropriated $775 million...
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Report: Mercury Levels Mostly Down In Great Lakes
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A newly released report says mercury levels in the Great Lakes region generally have dropped over the past four decades, although concentrations in some fish and bird species have...
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Progress Made At 2 Toxic Hot Spots In Michigan
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) – State environmental regulators say cleanup progress has been made at two Michigan sites on a decades-old list of the most heavily polluted locations around the Great Lakes. The...
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GVSU Researcher Finds Link Between Stream Pollution, Stocked Fish
MUSKEGON — A link between pollutant levels in stream-resident fish and stocked Pacific salmon in Lake Michigan has been described by a researcher at Grand Valley State University. David Janetski, a...
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Debate Over Renewable Energy Ballot Issue Heats Up
LANSING (AP) – The debate over increasing Michigan’s renewable energy requirements is starting to heat up faster than a solar panel on a cloudless summer day. Supporters say passing a ballot measure in...
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Michigan Ranks 7th Worst State For Toxic Air Pollution From Power Plants
LANSING (WWJ) – Michigan is the seventh worst state in the nation when it comes to exposing residents to toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants, according to an analysis released by the...
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Tire-Burning Power Plants Prompt Concerns
WYANDOTTE (WWJ/AP) – Power plants in several Michigan cities are burning millions of tires each year to make electricity. Plant operators say tire-derived power is cheaper and cleaner than burning coal...
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Report: Fund For Environmental Cleanup Running Out
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – A published report says a fund to clean up thousands of sites around Michigan that are contaminated from prior industrial use is running out of money. The pool of cleanup money once...
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US Court Sides With EPA In Michigan Pollution Case
By JOHN FLESHER, AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY (AP) – A federal appeals court says government regulators can take action when they fear a power company construction project might significantly...
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Court: EPA Can Stop Some Power Plant Modifications
By John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY (WWJ/AP) – Government regulators can try to halt construction projects at power plants if they think the companies didn’t properly calculate...
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Mich. Beachgoers Lost 755 Days To Pollution In ’12
DETROIT (AP) – Michigan beachgoers lost 755 days of water access in 2012 because of pollution, down 17 percent from 2011 and about half the number from five years earlier, the Michigan Department of...
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Study Links Environmental Toxins As Risk Factor For Autism
DETROIT (WWJ) – There’s more evidence environmental pollution might be a risk factor for autism. University of Chicago researchers analyzed medical records and found for every one percent increase in...
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Holiday Makers Leave Trail Of Trash Along Beach In Traverse City
TRAVERSE CITY (WWJ) – Pop bottles, paper products, even the remains of full cases of beer litter the grounds of an otherwise beautiful beach before a seasonal fireworks display. Douglas Vipond, a...
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Scientists: Great Lakes Teeming With Tiny Plastic Fibers
By John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY (AP) – Scientists who have reported that the Great Lakes are awash in tiny bits of plastic are raising new alarms about a little-noticed form of...
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