In conjunction with The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, IPR highlights our watershed through the eyes, and voices, of the people who live here.
All content tagged: "environment"
For this IPR Soundscape, Bob Allen goes onto the ice of Boardman Lake in Traverse City.
By Bob Allen
The desire to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes has now risen to the highest political levels. Great Lakes Governors will meet with the Obama White House next month....
The discussion over a local utility's proposal to build biomass plants continues to heat up.
Traverse City Light and Power is looking at the possibility of three small wood fired biomass plants located near the city to provide electricity...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says there's now DNA evidence of Asian carp in Lake Michigan, but the Corps and other federal agencies say they see that as an early...
This week the company cleaning up contamination seeping into Lake Michigan at Bay Harbor announced it wants to put the treated wastewater into Little Traverse Bay.
CMS has been working for years and has spent tens of millions of dollars on...
Michigan leaders are touting renewable energy and green jobs as a way to retool the economy. Yet local opposition tends to stymie projects like wind farms. Last month, residents near Ludington and Pentwater voiced strong criticism of...
This week on Points North we listen back to some of the stories we told over the last year. Hear about the situation facing cherry farmers as they prepare to give up the main pesticide in their arsenal. Find out what is happening with struggling...
Michigan is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Attorney General, Mike Cox, filed suit last week asking the court to close Chicago area waterways through which the carp could enter Lake...
