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Great Lakes legal expert discusses challenge to EPA mercury rules
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Michigan’s challenge to EPA emissions rule lands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Top uses for remote sensing in conservation
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Scientists recently identified the top ways to boost awareness of global conservation with satellites and drones.
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Software tracks smoke from forest fires
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Much like a weather-forecasting model, it calculates changes in air and soil temperatures and wind speed to help fire managers determine where the smoke is headed.
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Environmental violators go to jail in crackdown
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An improving economy spurring demolition of old structures and redevelopment of contaminated industrial sites is creating more opportunity for environmental crimes.
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Planetarium improves night vision
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It’s a tool for peering deeply into the cosmos and engaging diverse students in science.
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Air near chemical plant remains polluted long after it closed
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A new study says that people living within six miles of the former plant are exposed to relatively high levels of contaminants in the air and linked to the site.
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Great Lakes cities clear air
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Check out the improvements in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Gary, Toledo, Cleveland.
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Upending the basin: Can Fotokite ease drone drama for journalists?
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Tether increases control, accountability, reliability of flying devices that can provide a unique perspective on environmental problems
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Trial to begin in Michigan asbestos case
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A jury trial is scheduled to begin April 29 on asbestos-related criminal charges stemming from the conversion of a former Bay City. Mich., church into a charter school. Roy Bradley Sr. and Gerald Essex are accused of violating the Clean Air Act by failing to properly handle, remove and dispose of material containing asbestos on the Bay City Academy project. The charter school has more than 500 students from kindergarten through 9th grade at the former church and two other buildings. Bradley was in charge of the project and Essex was the foreman supervising demolition and renovation activity at the site between August 2010 and September 2011, according to court documents.
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State, university officials and entrepreneurs waiting for drone industry take-off
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The status of using what are also called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — UAVs -commercially is in a holding pattern after a federal judge ruled last month that the Federal Aviation Administration had no authority to issue a $10,000 fine against a Virginia drone pilot.
That set off celebrations in the drone community that were short-lived.