Contaminants
Illinois contractor charged with illegally removing asbestos.
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Indictment says he hired untrained worker to illegally strip asbestos pipe insulation from vacant buildings and demolished one building with asbestos still in it.
Waste
Robot is on a mission to clean up Great Lakes shorelines
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A new robot could change the game for shoreline trash collection. It will be put to the test this summer in Toronto before going on a mission to clean up an island in Lake Ontario.
Podcasts
The cost of recycling electronic waste
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Michigan laws are making it more difficult to recycle e-waste.
Waste
New proposal would add deposit to water bottles
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The proposal aims to expand the 40-year-old beverage deposit law to include noncarbonated drinks, with the exceptions of dairy and dairy substitute products.
Podcasts
What goes in must come out: The prospects of drinking treated wastewater
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Drinking wastewater isn’t as far-fetched as you might think. Question is, just how much of the “waste” part can be removed at the treatment plant?
Waste
The Green Room: Washtenaw County ponders reusable bags
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Barbara Lucas for WEMU’s The Green Room investigates why Michigan’s Washtenaw County is looking into a reusable bag ordinance.
Waste
Digital map tracks factory farm environmental violations
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The map uses Michigan as the model for other states.
Waste
Passenger’s butt gets driver’s butt in hot water
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Wisconsin high court’s littering decision fell on anniversary of littering incident that inspired Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”
Waste
Maps show proposed nuclear waste travels in Great Lakes region
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Anti-nuclear groups mapped the potential travels of nuclear waste in the Great Lakes region if a waste site were approved in Nevada.
Waste
Michigan plan to deregulate chemicals upsets environmentalists
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Tensions between the Michigan legislature and environmentalists have grown after the Department of Environmental Quality proposed deregulating 500 chemicals. Regulators say the move benefits public health by targeting the most serious chemicals threats.