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| Beach closings and warnings due to pollution dropped in Michigan, according to the 17th annual beach water quality report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Using data just collected from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the report, “Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches,†tallied 124 closing and health advisory days in 2006, a 47 percent decline from the year before. | |
| Beach closings and warnings due to bacterial contamination dropped in Michigan, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual report released today by Environment Michigan and Clean Water Action. | |
| Environment Michigan today presented BP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials with more than 65,000 signatures from Great Lakes region residents demanding a halt to BP's unprecedented expansion of pollution into Lake Michigan. | |
| A ban on the sale of certain products containing mercury, including thermostats and blood pressure monitors, passed the Michigan Senate today. The House of Representatives now has until the end of December to pass these bills before session ends in order to protect Michigan’s children and the state’s unparalleled natural resources from unnecessary exposure to this neurotoxin. | |
| More than 49% percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Michigan discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center. | |
| Environment Michigan issued a new report today on water efficiency to boost its case for the Great Lakes Compact that is swiftly moving in Congress. The report — Using Water Wisely — calculates that six Southwestern states could save as much as 1.86 trillion gallons of water per year by dramatically improving efficiency of water use. | |
| Ann Arbor — With families across Michigan headed to the Great Lakes for the Fourth of July holiday, Environment Michigan and the Huron River Watershed Council joined Congressman John Dingell near the Huron River to urge Congress to protect the Great Lakes and pass the Clean Water Restoration Act (H.R. 2421 and S. 1870). | |