The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Wayne State University (WSU) today announced registration remains open for the 2012 Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference scheduled for Oct. 26 at the WSU McGregor Memorial Conference Center in Detroit.More
Gov. Rick Snyder accepted the resignation of Patty Birkholz as director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes and tapped Jon W. Allan, of East Lansing, to lead the office.More
EPA’s Campus RainWorks Challenge is a competition for college and university students intended to engage the next generation of urban planners, designers, and engineers in the development of integrated, green solutions to our nation’s growing water infrastructure needs. MoreThe Honorable Steven LaTourette and members of the Great Lakes conservation community gathered at Lake Erie Bluffs today to announce 34 ecological restoration projects selected to receive $8.2 million in grant funding through the Sustain Our Great Lakesprogram.More
The Nonpoint Source Program is requesting proposals for FY13 funding to develop or implement watershed management plans to restore impaired waters and protect high quality waters. Approximately $4 million should be available to selected projects by mid-2013.More
Preliminary results of a new study examining the movement patterns of walleyes in Lake Huron has surprised researchers by indicating out-migration from Saginaw Bay to the main basin of the lake occurs earlier in the year than previously assumed and in greater numbers than expected.More
The Alliance’s annual Adopt-a-Beach™ Spring Kickoff is off and running with 10,000 volunteers in six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin — clearing Great Lakes shorelines and monitoring water quality from April 1 through Memorial Day.More
The International Upper Great Study (IUGLS) today announced they have recommended an improved regulation plan for outflows from Lake Superior. The new plan – Lake Superior Regulation Plan 2012 – is more robust than the existing plan and provides important benefits, especially to the environment.More
Consumers Energy’s Experimental Advanced Renewables Program (EARP) is actually what most of the world calls a “feed-in tariff”; it allows owners of solar panels to sell the power directly to Consumers and earn a fair return.More
I was pleased to support recent legislation that will protect our natural resources and promote job creation. More
