Issues of The Environment: The Clean Water Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued the new "Clean Water Rule." How does it impact Michigan and Washtenaw County? Find out in this 89.1 WEMU's 'Issues of the Environment.'
View ArticleIssues of the Environment: The Ann Arbor Connection To The Volkswagen Scandal
A Senior Fellow at the International Council on Clean Transportation in Ann Arbor knows exactly how Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions testing. John German, and his colleagues, commissioned the...
View Article1st Friday Focus On the Environment: Addressing A Dioxane Plume Approaching...
Remediation of an expanding 1, 4 dioxane plume continues, but the chemical continues to slowly spread towards the Huron river. That's the topic in this month's edition of '1st Friday Focus on the...
View ArticleThe Green Room: The Ann Arbor Area's 1,4 Dioxane Plume-Part 9
In 1980 Congress created the Superfund to clean up hazardous waste sites that have passed criteria placing them on the “National Priorities List.” If and when funding becomes available for a site, the...
View ArticleSierra Club Calls For Superfund Designation for Pall-Gelman Contamination Plume
"Declare the Pall-Gelman 1, 4 dioxane plume a federal Superfund site." That’s the message from the Sierra Club of Huron Valley . The Sierra Club has passed a resolution urging the City of Ann Arbor and...
View ArticleThe Green Room: The Ann Arbor Area's 1, 4 Dioxane Plume-Part 13
1,4-Dioxane is a suspected human carcinogen and a contaminant of “emerging concern” for the EPA. It has been found in over a thousand public water supplies across the country, including thirty in...
View ArticleThe Green Room: The Ann Arbor Area's 1,4 Dioxane Plume-Part 25
For two decades the State of Michigan’s “containment” policy has allowed polluters to leave contamination in place rather than clean it up. 4,000 such “prohibition zones” exist in the state. In our...
View Article1st Friday Focus On The Environment: Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
As the federal and state government continuing ironing out their budget priorities, environmentalists are expressing concern over proposed funding and regulatory rollbacks. In this month's edition of...
View Article1st Friday Focus on the Environment: Land Use, Budget Cuts And Climate Marches
Proposals in both Lansing and Washington would make available publicly held lands for private enterprise. environmentalists are fighting regulatory rollbacks and cuts to funding health and...
View ArticleIssues of The Environment: The Clean Water Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued the new "Clean Water Rule." How does it impact Michigan and Washtenaw County? Find out in this 89.1 WEMU's 'Issues of the Environment.'
View ArticleIssues of the Environment: The Ann Arbor Connection To The Volkswagen Scandal
A Senior Fellow at the International Council on Clean Transportation in Ann Arbor knows exactly how Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions testing. John German, and his colleagues, commissioned the...
View Article1st Friday Focus On the Environment: Addressing A Dioxane Plume Approaching...
Remediation of an expanding 1, 4 dioxane plume continues, but the chemical continues to slowly spread towards the Huron river. That's the topic in this month's edition of '1st Friday Focus on the...
View ArticleThe Green Room: The Ann Arbor Area's 1,4 Dioxane Plume-Part 9
In 1980 Congress created the Superfund to clean up hazardous waste sites that have passed criteria placing them on the “National Priorities List.” If and when funding becomes available for a site, the...
View ArticleSierra Club Calls For Superfund Designation for Pall-Gelman Contamination Plume
"Declare the Pall-Gelman 1, 4 dioxane plume a federal Superfund site." That’s the message from the Sierra Club of Huron Valley . The Sierra Club has passed a resolution urging the City of Ann Arbor and...
View ArticleThe Green Room: The Ann Arbor Area's 1, 4 Dioxane Plume-Part 13
1,4-Dioxane is a suspected human carcinogen and a contaminant of “emerging concern” for the EPA. It has been found in over a thousand public water supplies across the country, including thirty in...
View ArticleThe Green Room: The Ann Arbor Area's 1,4 Dioxane Plume-Part 25
For two decades the State of Michigan’s “containment” policy has allowed polluters to leave contamination in place rather than clean it up. 4,000 such “prohibition zones” exist in the state. In our...
View Article1st Friday Focus On The Environment: Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
As the federal and state government continuing ironing out their budget priorities, environmentalists are expressing concern over proposed funding and regulatory rollbacks. In this month's edition of...
View Article1st Friday Focus on the Environment: Land Use, Budget Cuts And Climate Marches
Proposals in both Lansing and Washington would make available publicly held lands for private enterprise. environmentalists are fighting regulatory rollbacks and cuts to funding health and...
View Article1st Friday Focus On The Environment: The Health Of Michigan Waters Amidst...
From spills in the Straits of Mackinac, to large-scale water diversions to tainted drinking water, Michigan has plenty of issues to address and remediate. There are questions as to whether the...
View Article1st Friday Focus On The Environment: Michigan, Lake Erie And Algal Blooms
The annual, summer algae bloom has hit Lake Erie. That’s not all. Agricultural run-off, in some way, affects many of Michigan’s rivers streams and more than 11, 000 inland lakes. Explore the causes,...
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