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Every Tuesday the Current State public affairs radio program on WKAR in East Lansing runs an environmental story in partnership with Great Lakes Echo. The stories also run on the Echo site and are archived here.
Reporters from around the world have been writing about the Flint Water crisis. Current State hears what it’s like to be a Flint journalist covering it daily from the city from Flint Journal editor Bryn Mickle and reporter Ron Fonger.
This experiment has been in progress for 137 years.
Current State speaks with Rob Mies about the plight of the northern long-eared bat.
Three smokestacks tower over Lansing, Michigan – part of a power station the city will take offline in 2020. What’s next?
Current State’s Kevin Lavery speaks with Jane Greenway about controlling chronic wasting disease in Meridian Township.
Current State speaks with Jon Allan, director of Michigan’s Office of the Great Lakes, about why Waukesha wants Lake Michigan water.
How will our Great Lakes respond to a warming climate? Current State speaks with researcher John Lenters to discuss.
Greening of the Great Lakes host Kirk Heinze from MSU Today brings us a conversation about a new Chicago exhibit on Great Lakes energy. “Future Energy Chicago” is currently on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. Kirk Heinze is host of the environmental segment Greening of the Great Lakes on WKAR’s MSU Today. His conversations are an occasional feature here on Current State. Heinze recently attended Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry exhibit, “Future Energy Chicago.”
Current State’s Kevin Lavery meets up with volunteers banding birds at the Burke Lake Banding Station this week.
Current State talks with a Minnesota-based poet artist who traveled along all the Great Lakes shorelines this summer for his project H.O.M.E.S.