Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/tag/catch-of-the-day/page/34/)
The former New York Times environmental reporter spoke recently after Michigan State University Environmental Science and Policy Program’s “Fate of the Earth” symposium. He is now the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials placed the northern long-eared bat under threatened protection. The April 1 decision contradicts the agency’s 2013 recommendation to list the bat as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Great Lakes states received more than $10 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, around 22 percent of the $45 million total given through the State Wildlife Grant Program.
Mr. Great Lakes, Jeff Kart, discusses Michigan being ranked number four nationally in its number of clean energy jobs, a new app that could allow consumers to view their home energy use and statistics from the new State Energy Profiles.
Michigan Sea Grant Director Jim Diana says Michigan could boost its seafood industry by investing in aquaculture.
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Mr. Great Lakes, Jeff Kart, discusses a tire cleanup in Bay County to ward off mosquitos, Oak Wilt as a potential danger to Bay County and the fight against invasive plants in the Saginaw Bay watershed.
A research project at the University of Michigan is looking at the impact that microplastics could have on Great Lakes wildlife.
A municipal utility hopes to put a large solar array on an old auto manufacturing site.