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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Groundwater contamination wasn't on environment officials' radar until the late 1970s, said Andrew Hogarth, who retired as the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's chief of remediation ...

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

Seven Michigan beaches are closed or under advisory due to high bacteria levels. Closures and advisories affect beaches in Oakland, Charlevoix, Allegan, Macomb and Grand Traverse counties. E. coli ...

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 ...