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Rusty patched bumblebee now an endangered species
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The rusty patched bumblebee has become the first bee species in the continental U.S. to be declared endangered after suffering a dramatic population decline over the past 20...
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Trump admin orders EPA contract freeze and media blackout
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants, part of a broader...
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Study says grass carp have invaded 3 of the Great Lakes
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Invasive grass carp have reached three of the Great Lakes and pose a significant environmental risk there, but time remains to prevent them from getting out of hand,...
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Environmentalists preparing to battle Trump, GOP in court
CHICAGO (AP) — The night before Donald Trump’s inauguration, five environmental lawyers filed a federal court brief defending an Obama administration clean-water rule that the new president and his...
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Trump administration delays listing bumblebee as endangered
With President Trump pledging to cut back on federal regulations, environmentalists said they feared the bumblebee protection might be doomed.
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Agency delays plan for keeping Asian carp from Great Lakes
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Trump administration has delayed indefinitely a plan for strengthening defenses on a crucial Chicago-area waterway to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes,...
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AP Explains: Trump executive order on water protection
President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to rewrite an Obama administration rule that would shield many wetlands and small streams from development and pollution. Trump promised during his...
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Republicans join Democrats against Trump’s Great Lakes cuts
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — It sounds like an idea that would warm a conservative Republican’s heart: Kill funding of a regional environmental cleanup that has lasted seven years and cost the federal...
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Rusty patched bumblebee first of species called endangered
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The rusty patched bumblebee on Tuesday became the first officially endangered bee species in the continental U.S., overcoming objections from some business interests and a...
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Moose population explodes on island park as wolves decline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — With only two wolves left to feast on them, the moose of Isle Royale National Park are undergoing a population explosion that could endanger the wilderness area’s fir trees...
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Order sets up legal showdown with vast lands at stake
President Donald Trump’s order for the government to review national monuments created by three of his predecessors sets up a potential legal showdown over whether one chief executive has the power to...
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The Antiquities Act and why Trump wants to change it
President Donald Trump’s order for the government to review national monuments created by several of his predecessors sets up a legal showdown over whether one chief executive has the power to undo...
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Advocates: Federal role crucial for iconic waterway cleanups
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Trump administration makes a straightforward case for slashing $427 million in federal spending to heal ailing regional water bodies such as the Great Lakes, Chesapeake...
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States, cities pledge action on climate even without Trump
If President Donald Trump withdraws support for the Paris climate change accord, will efforts in the U.S. to fight global warming dry up? Hardly. Dozens of states and many cities have policies intended...
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Trump wages battle against regulations, not climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Donald Trump’s beliefs about global warming remain something of a mystery, his actions make one thing clear: He doesn’t consider it a problem for the federal...
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Official hopes charges in Flint water case help return trust
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — In a battered city where many still refuse to bathe in tap water, much less drink it, the prosecution of officials accused of letting Flint’s public supply become contaminated with...
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Officials: Live Asian carp discovered near Lake Michigan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A live Asian carp has been discovered in a Chicago waterway about nine miles from Lake Michigan — well beyond an electric barrier network designed to prevent the invasive...
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Trump administration moves to withdraw clean-water rule
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama administration policy that protected more than half the nation’s streams from pollution but drew attacks from farmers,...
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Michigan official calls for shutting down oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general on Thursday called for shutting down twin oil pipelines beneath the waterway where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet, as the state released a...
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Search turns up no additional Asian carp in Chicago waterway
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A two-week search turned up no additional Asian carp in a Chicago waterway where one of the invasive fish recently was found beyond an electric barrier network designed to...
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