Lester Graham
Reporter, The Environment ReportLester Graham reports for The Environment Report. He has reported on public policy, politics, and issues regarding race and gender inequity. He was previously with The Environment Report at Michigan Public from 1998-2010.
He has been a journalist since 1985. Graham has served as a board member of the Public Radio News Directors Inc., and also served as President of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association. He is a member of the Radio-Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), Society of Professional Journalists and other professional groups.
Lester has received 15 first place national awards for journalism excellence and scores more at the national, regional, and state levels.
Contact Lester: graham@michiganradio.org
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The City of Detroit says it’s using explosives to demolish the city’s incinerator smoke stack. -
The EPA's new carbon pollution standards would require coal and natural gas burning power plants to capture CO2 emissions. -
Forests slow water down, they cool water, filter water, help keep it cleaner. -
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found more efficient ways to construct a barrier near Chicago to keep invasive carp in the Mississippi River system out of the Great Lakes. -
The recent ice storm followed by heavy snow did a lot of damage to trees around homes. -
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is releasing the numbers of deer killed during hunting seasons months earlier. -
Climate change is already affecting the Great Lakes. One group is urging the Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces to coordinate their efforts to make the Great Lakes basin more resilient to those changes.Climate change contributed to the rapid rise in Great Lakes water levels a few years ago. Combined with more frequent and intense storms — also a result of climate change — they caused record flooding in 2017 and 2019 in some parts of the Great Lakes region. Homes and property were damaged. -
Economists forecast that Michigan's population will increase by about a half-million people over the next three decades, with growth concentrated in certain areas.Gabriel Ehrlich heads up the group of economists at the University of Michigan. He says growth is expected in a band of counties from the suburban Detroit area, west through Lansing and on to the Grand Rapids region. Ehrlich and other economists say there also will be population growth in the Traverse City to Petoskey region. -
Economists at the University of Michigan forecast Michigan’s economy is strong enough to manage a mild recession on the horizon. -
USEPA has enhanced its website to better reveal the process of determining risk assessments of new chemicals
