With schools back in session, more Michigan students than ever are boarding buses running on clean electric power instead of diesel fuel or gasoline. A survey finds that despite some growing pains, the new buses earn generally high marks on the job – even …
Michigan’s Invasive Species Grant Program is now accepting proposals for the 2024 funding cycle, with an anticipated $3.6 million available to applicants. The program – a joint effort of the Michigan departments of Natural Resources; Environment, Great …
A new video produced by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) highlights its work cleaning up contaminated sites in Michigan. Former contaminated site in Michigan. In the video, EGLE Director Phil Roos says the department …
It’s back to school time, and that means the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is hitting the road to participate in many career fairs at Michigan colleges and universities. The department also has a presence at conferences …
As part of National Preparedness Month, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is highlighting its recent effort to develop a preparedness strategy for drinking water and wastewater treatment plant operators in Michigan. …
An agreement has been reached in a civil rights complaint filed by community members and environmental justice advocates against the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) regarding the January 2020 renewal of a U.S. Ecology North …
The Michigan Green Schools program is a fantastic initiative that empowers PreK-12 schools to become environmental stewards. Students on the Green Team at Coolidge Elementary School in Livonia help implement activities for their Michigan Green Schools …
Invasive species pose a threat to Michigan’s environment, economy, and sometimes even human health. What is at stake? What is being done? This webinar series explores how agencies, universities, and locally led organizations are working together to protect …
Today's story is part of a series from NextCycle Michigan that MI Environment runs periodically to highlight the program's effort to attract end markets for recyclable materials through new companies and new jobs in Michigan, leveraging state …
Today’s MI Environment story is courtesy of the Recycling Raccoons. Paper roll being manufactured at UP Paper. Now more than ever, companies in the Great Lakes State are desperately seeking to include recyclables in the manufacturing of new products, …
Wondering what to do between now and the anticipated September release of the “Beetlejuice” movie sequel? Consider spending some time outdoors looking for a real destructive pest – the invasive Asian longhorned beetle. An adult Asian longhorned beetle …
Communities, agencies, universities, and nonprofits throughout the state will soon welcome reinforcements from the MI Healthy Climate Corps (MHC Corps) in the fight against climate change. The corps began accepting applications today for positions in the …
Today’s MI Environment story, by Casey Warner, is courtesy of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. Jon Vigilant, DNR wildlife employee from Marquette, assessing wild rice seed germination at Sand River Flooding in Marquette …
Since 2006, Michigan has maintained a Cancer Drug Repository Program that allows people to donate cancer drugs and supplies used to administer cancer drugs to be used by another individual who meets the eligibility criteria specified in Michigan’s Public …
Any act can have far-reaching consequences. In the case of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), those consequences are helping to transform Michigan’s economic and clean energy future. EGLE Director Phil Roos celebrates federal …
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), in partnership with the Kansas State University National Radon Program Services, is sponsoring a three-day, in-person National Radon Proficiency Program, radon mitigation certification …
In communities across Michigan, sites that were once abandoned and considered unusable are being transformed into vibrant places for Michiganders to live, work and play. Today, Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) Director Phil Roos …
In communities across Michigan, EGLE is transforming sites that were once abandoned and considered unusable into vibrant places for Michiganders to live, work and play. Thanks to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s prioritization of these investments, EGLE’s …
It started out as a complaint in 2014 about an unregistered electronics recycler with a pile of televisions behind their place of business. It ended with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2020 spending over $1 million to cleanup over 1.2 …
As the annual Upper Peninsula State Fair welcomes guests to Escanaba Aug. 12-18, several other U.P. destinations also have cause to celebrate: They’re getting a charge out of new funding announced in a state-federal partnership for sustainable mobility …
