The Trump administration framed the mining exemptions as necessary for national security and preserving the domestic supply ...

Environmental activists, community members and local leaders on Thursday gathered in Southwest Detroit to speak out against ...

Marshall Kilgore of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council said that’s what happened in Grand Rapids in 2016, when poison vapor from old dry cleaning contamination that was left ...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - As of Friday, 11 beaches across Michigan are either closed or under contamination advisories because of a high level of bacteria, particularly E. coli. That includes a cluster ...

Michigan has identified more than 30 contamination sites that have tested positive for the potentially harmful class of fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS — long used in products such as Teflon ...

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County health departments routinely collect water samples to test for bacteria levels to ensure water is safe for swimming.

LANSING — The Flint water crisis wasn’t the first environmental disaster to put Michigan in the limelight. Neither was PFAS, a man-made chemical found in some Michigan drinking water supplies ...

Michigan environmental officials announced Wednesday they are measuring chemical contamination in the Detroit and Rouge rivers that have decades of industrial pollution. The state Department of ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer formed an environmental justice response team and an Advisory Council for Environmental Justice in 2020 to address challenges related to pollution and energy access.

Michigan has the most PFAS contaminated sites in the U.S., according to new data. An update to a study conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) shows Michigan with by far the most sites ...

Environmental activists reached a “groundbreaking settlement” with Michigan regulators following a civil rights complaint over the state’s disproportionate licensing of hazardous waste ...