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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterFish, Birds and AnimalsLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreational Hunting and FishingResearch, Data and Technology
On Michigan’s inland lakes, ice fishing with less ice, and fewer fish
-Warming waters are hard on some fish, such as walleye, and more favorable to others, such as smallmouth bass. With so many environmental stresses, it’s difficult to gauge the future of individual lakes.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterFish, Birds and AnimalsInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and Technology
Intense storms from climate change harming Michigan streams and rivers
-Severe storms can lead to intensive flooding, soil erosion and disruption to fish populations. Timing is everything in nature.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDetroitDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature DetroitLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal Governments
Speaking of Water: How Can the Biden Administration Deliver on Environmental Justice Pledges?
-The Biden administration wants to correct a legacy of pollution and under-investment in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. Two veterans of the U.S. environmental justice movement discuss how to do that.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterFish, Birds and AnimalsForever Chemicals FeaturedLatest NewsMichiganNewsPFASRecreational Hunting and FishingResearch, Data and Technology
PFAS is in fish and wildlife. Researchers prowl Michigan for clues.
-Years into Michigan’s PFAS contamination crisis, little is known about how the chemicals affect the fish and wildlife that live in tainted environments. Michigan has become a laboratory for answers.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, Research
Water could make the Great Lakes a climate refuge. Are we prepared?
-Michigan and the Great Lakes region — with an abundance of fresh water, warming winters and less fire-prone forests — stand to attract millions of new residents in the coming years looking to escape flooded coastal areas and the parched land of the West.
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BudgetCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNews
High Demand for New Michigan Water Infrastructure Grants
-Funding requests are more than three times larger than available funds.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDetroitDrinking WaterFeature DetroitInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNews
GLWA, DWSD and Oakland County working together to reduce overflows into Rouge River
-Once completed, these projects will prevent an estimated 48 million gallons of untreated rain water from flowing into the Rouge River per year.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice
EPA Nominee Regan Touts Collaboration during Senate Confirmation Hearing
-North Carolina’s top environmental regulator would seek “common ground” if confirmed in the federal role.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesLatest NewsMichigan
Should future plans for Line 5 consider climate change?
-Read or listen to the Interlochen report on Michigan Radio.
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Task force delays report recommending changes to Michigan dam safety regulations
-The task force members met on zoom Wednesday for what was expected to be their final meeting to approve their report. They didn’t. Instead, the panel requested revisions to “soften” some of the language in the final report.