water contamination

Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced over $7.3 million in grants to upgrade water infrastructure, replace lead service lines, and reduce or remove PFAS and other toxic contaminants.

The Clean Water Act called for waterways to be fishable and swimmable. A report shows the U.S. EPA and states are only half way there.

Your car's undercarriage isn’t the only place road salt accumulates each winter. University of Wisconsin researchers are seeing more and more salt in the Great Lakes — so much that the lakes' ecosystems are starting to change.

A tire chemical that's poisoning fish out West has been discovered in two Lake Ontario tributaries.

New legislation in the Michigan Senate would increase the timeframe during which legal action could be taken against polluters in Michigan.Under current…

State officials held the first of three public hearings on Wednesday on plans to set limits on PFAS in drinking water. Certain kinds of the industrial…

U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) is urging the Department of Defense to replace PFAS-foam at military bases faster.She sent a letter to the…

The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy sent draft rules that would limit PFAS contamination in drinking water to Governor Whitmer’s office…

Not enough people have taken a PFAS exposure assessment, says Kent County and state health officials.The Michigan Department of Health and Human services…

U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin introduced a bill that aims to monitor PFAS in drinking water.The Democratic congresswoman’s bill seeks to amend the…