Blog tagged as Environment

The latest proposal to ask voters to expand the state's 10-cent bottle bill to include other containers received a thumbs-down from the Michigan Environmental Council, which doesn't like that the proceeds from the measure would be used to expand recycling capacity and not environmental cleanup.

Michigan lawmakers have asked the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for a review of a decision to euthanize a beloved elk in Rogers City.

Canadian Geese in the flying V indicate the changing of the seasons. But when the geese are around, they can become too much for some cities and townships to handle, which is spurring a possible change in the rules to make the birds easier to remove.

The lock and dam project separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River to prevent the spread of the invasive silver carp, known as Asian carp, saw an agreement signed that would fund the construction.

A coalition of clean water advocates Monday called on legislators to "slow down" and do some additional work on SB 237 and SB 238, which provide use and sales tax exemptions for mega-sized data centers, and which advocates say should be amended to require full reliance on renewable energy sources.