Michigan Environmental Report
News from Michigan Environmental Council on public policies affecting the health of Michigan's people and environment
Beware: Toxic dangers may lurk in holiday decorations
Artificial Christmas trees are not the only holiday decoration containing lead—a potent neurotoxin that is especially dangerous to the developing brains and bodies of young children. Here are other common decorations that may be a hazard.
Climate change in Michigan: Lower lakes, higher temps
Experts weigh in as international panel's reports show trouble for Great Lakes
Climate change is coming to Michigan and a Great Lake near you, according to a panel of experts convened to discuss recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Coalition slams brakes on controversial Big Rock nuclear park proposal
But plan to buy former atomic site will return in late 2007
An MEC-led coalition helped stop a controversial proposal to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to acquire the grounds of the former Big Rock Point nuclear power plant near Charlevoix.