Michigan’s Top Environmental Regulator Defends New PFAS Standards, Line 5 Permits
Michigan's top environmental regulator is defending Michigan’s new standards for PFAS contamination in water. Those chemicals are linked to serious health...
City of Detroit Seeks Members for New Climate Equity Advisory Council
The City of Detroit is seeking applicants for its new Climate Equity Advisory Council. The deadline to apply is 11:59...
Future of Line 5 Uncertain After Enbridge Ignores Whitmer’s Order to Shut Down
Oil and gas are still flowing through Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. That’s despite Gov. Gretchen...
How Industries Can Profit from Historic Inequities and Create Oppressive Systems
Chapter Two of the Atlantic's Inheritance project continues to explore Black history in the Spaces and Places "Where Memories Live." One...
Enbridge Line 5 Now Trespassing on State Land After Missing Deadline
Enbridge has defied Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's May 12 deadline to shut down Line 5, which means the pipeline is now trespassing...
“Water Is Life” Is Theme of Day 1 of Protests to Shut Down Enbridge Line 5
I’m standing next to this little two-lane road in the country, and on one side is the pumping station that...
Plastic Debris Is Getting Into the Great Lakes, Our Drinking Water, and Our Food
There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans. But, plastic pollution is also affecting the Great...
Chilly Temps May Delay Brood X Cicadas In Michigan, But Not For Long
Shannon Potter/Unsplash Brood X is coming to Michigan parks, forests, backyards, schoolyards -- heck, basically everywhere that's literally not inside a human-created structure...
On Eve of Line 5 Shutdown Deadline, Enbridge Vows to Defy Michigan Order
Last November the Department of Natural Resources concluded that Enbridge was in violation of its 1953 easement agreement. That easement...
Massive Detroit River Sturgeon Captures America’s Imagination
Last Thursday started out like any other day on the Detroit River for three scientists with the U.S. Fish and...
Why It’s Time To Reform or Repeal Michigan’s Bottle Return Law
In 1976, the state of Michigan approved the "bottle bill," attaching a 10-cent deposit to returned bottles and cans. The act...
Little-Known Sleeping Bear Dunes ‘Gateway’ Road Inching Forward, But Still Decades Away
If you look at Benzie County on Google Maps, you’ll notice a dark green strip of land about five miles long...