Cleanup

Each day, 20,000 gallons of contaminated water is removed from the Pine River containing the toxins that still leak from the site 45 years after the plant closed in St. Louis, Michigan.

Workers first discovered the spill last week. Remediation work is ongoing.

Michigan recently surpassed 300 known sites with PFAS contamination. As more sites are identified and researchers continue to learn about the health impacts, we’re here to answer YOUR questions.

After sitting for more than a decade, cleanup of a contaminated superfund site in northern Michigan will pick back up, thanks to some federal funding.

A $2 billion cleanup in Lake Superior to address pollution from historical copper mining is still in the works.

In February, Governor Gretchen Whitmer dispersed the remainder of funds from the Blight Elimination Program throughout Michigan. Northeast Michigan last received funds in September 2023, and the region is still seeing the positive effects today.

Great Lakes Great Responsibility, a cleanup group based in northeast Michigan with work extending throughout the Great Lakes basin, just surpassed collecting 333,000 pieces of trash. This is a third of their goal to collecting one million pieces of trash through the #GreatLakes1Million challenge.

Next week, crews will begin a project to remove contamination from a former burn pit used by Velsicol in mid-Michigan for decades.

The Air Force says it plans to implement new clean up operations in Oscoda that have been long-demanded by residents.

Michigan lawmakers introduced two bills this week that would strengthen the state's polluter pay laws.