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General Motors will book a negative impact of $1.6 billion in its next quarter after tax incentives for electric vehicles were slashed by the U.S. and rules governing emissions are relaxed. General Motors, which had led the way among U.S. automakers with plans to convert production to an electric fleet of vehicles, warned that more hits may be ahead as it adjusts production under a new administration, and non-cash charges may impact operations and cash flow in the future.

The order was put in place near the height of the city’s lead-tainted drinking water crisis.

The Legislature debates a bill package around transgender youth in sports. Then, one person’s journey to become the first person to kayak around the Great Lakes. Plus, the impact of the EPA delaying setting guidelines for PFAS.

Federal budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration could cause significant disruption in the efforts to restore and sustain fish populations in the Great Lakes.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently laid off nearly 400 employees. Environmental workers and union leaders say fewer EPA staff and attorneys mean less support in holding polluters accountable and responding to environmental emergencies.

Michigan gets a $129 million US EPA grant to assist local governments and tribes in siting, zoning, and permitting utility-scale renewable energy projects.

The EPA says cleanup of a six-acre segment of the Allied Paper/Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund site is complete.

Unpacking recent cold snaps and ice cover, Bonnie Jo Campbell's new book The Waters, and the growing problem of the toxic "Gelman Plume" under Ann Arbor.

The EPA plan announced Tuesday would limit toxic PFAS chemicals to the lowest level that tests can detect.

Debra Shore is the EPA's administrator for Region Five, which covers Michigan. She toured part of Flint’s water plant Tuesday.