Water affordability is a statewide issue in Michigan. The U of M study found the inflation-adjusted average cost of water ...

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Michigan might be known as the Great Lakes state, but rivers have played a crucial role in its development and culture ...

LANSING, MI — As water rates rise across the state, Michigan lawmakers are trying again to make water bills more affordable for low-income residents by advancing a retooled plan. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, ...

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Water quality problems caused by six of Consumers Energy Co.'s 13 hydroelectric dams threaten to complicate the utility's controversial plan to sell the dams to a Maryland private equity company. The ...

LANSING, MI — Michigan lawmakers are trying again to establish uniform state septic tank rules — a long-elusive water quality goal. The Senate natural resources committee heard testimony last week on ...

A low-flying helicopter dragging a giant hoop above southwest Michigan isn't monitoring the skies. It's taking an intricate look below ground. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and ...

Michigan EGLE has outlined new provisions for its permitting of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, related to how the large farms handle their animal wastes. CAFOs will now be ...

GRATIOT COUNTY, Michigan — Dennis Kellogg has farmed for six decades, at times raising dairy cows or hogs and now mostly growing soybeans. A lot has stayed the same in the sixth-generation farmer’s ...