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A Michigan "tow plow" carries tons of rock salt to combat icy and snowy roads.

Michigan expands testing of salt water to clear winter highways

A pilot project using a saline solution instead of rock salt last year showed good results. It'll be tested on three stretches of state highways this winter.

EPA forms new task force to assist Flint with drinking water problems

A federal task force will help the city of Flint with its drinking water problems.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been criticized for not…

Congressional Democrats: Charges should put more pressure on state to fix Flint water

Members of Michigan’s congressional delegation see today’s criminal charges as just a step in the right direction.On a conference call with reporters,…

WATCH: Gov. Snyder supports switching Flint's water supply back to Detroit

Gov. Rick Snyder made the announcement at 10 a.m. this morning (Oct. 8).You can watch the announcement below (if it doesn't load, try this link):He was…

Lessenberry talks Flint water, MSU student athletes, and Grace Lee Boggs

This Week in Michigan Politics, Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry and Christina Shockley discuss the latest on the Flint water problem, how Michigan State…

Activist Sufian Khatun worries that more frequent cyclones, triggered by climate change, will make her community in Bangladesh uninhabitable. Storm surges bring saline water into the river in the southwest part of the country where she lives, taking a toll on agriculture and the drinking water supply.

PHOTOS: Cyclones and salty water are a threat. These women are finding solutions

Storms come more often and the sea is rising, says an activist in Bangladesh. Crops are being ruined. Here's how one village is handling the situation.

Family members exchange photographs of their lost loved ones in the lobby of the Akin Gump law firm offices on Thursday in Manhattan, NY. The family members and victims gave statements to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court with the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma LP, present on Thursday.

For the first time, victims of the opioid crisis formally confront the Sackler family

The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, have maintained they did nothing wrong. People who lost loved ones and years of their lives to opioid addiction believe otherwise.

State plan for Flint's water woes doesn't please some residents

State and local officials Friday unveiled a plan for fixing Flint’s water problems.But one demand of many city residents is not on the list.Michigan…

Kaleb Danndels directs an excavator as it pushes a pipe segment into a hole drilled through the clay. He watches to make sure the existing 6-inch diameter water main he is standing above is not damaged. The existing water main will be abandoned after the new 8-inch water main is installed. The excavator on the left pushes the pipe into the small tunnel, while the excavator on the right holds the pipe steady.

After decades of neglect, bill coming due for Michigan’s water infrastructure

Though the costs are enormous and success is by no means assured if upgraded assets are not maintained, for the first time in decades Michigan is addressing systemic challenges in delivering drinking water and cleaning up wastewater that local and state officials and taxpaying residents have been unable to resolve.

An image provided by the Environmental Protection Agency shows examples of a lead pipe, left, a corroded steel pipe, center, and a lead pipe treated with protective orthophosphate. The EPA is only now requiring water systems to take stock of their lead pipes, decades after new ones were banned.

'Time bomb' lead pipes will be removed. But first water utilities have to find them

Health experts warn problems with these "underground poisonous straws" can strike suddenly, and states are getting cash to replace them. But no one knows how many lines exist or where they are.

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