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When the MI Healthy Climate conference kicked off earlier this month, anxieties around the nation’s climate policy likely plagued the minds of attendees, with President Donald Trump once again pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and working to dismantle efforts to combat climate change and environmental injustice.

State regulators would again have the power to create new water protection rules under legislation that made it out of a Michigan Senate committee Thursday.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy alleges the company did not notify authorities of the discharge of a hexavalent chromium solution in a timely manner and did not follow rules guarding against the release of toxic chemicals.

A cancer-causing chemical that spilled near the Huron River earlier this week has not been detected in the river itself, though a state environmental official said testing is not complete.

The Michigan House of Representatives is considering legislation that would take local government control away when it comes to rock, sand, and gravel mine permits.

A conference discussing research and policy on chemicals called PFAS starts today.

State environmental regulators have issued another air quality violation to an eastside Detroit auto plant.

The state is awarding nearly three million dollars in grants to help Michigan communities redevelop contaminated sites.

Testing of private drinking wells near the decommissioned Marquette County Airport detected traces of PFAS in the water.The Michigan Department of…

State officials say emergency efforts are underway to prepare the Edenville spillway for high spring water levels after a dam collapsed earlier this…