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The national nonprofit The Recycling Partnership and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) want members of the Michigan Municipal League to know about an exciting grant opportunity totaling $575,000 that exists for communities statewide in 2021 to dramatically improve residential recycling. EGLE and The Partnership are...

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) is holding three public hearings next month on its plans to regulate several types of fluorinated chemicals that may pose a health risk where they’re being found in public drinking water. Those levels (in parts-per-trillion, or ppt) for seven compounds are: PFNA...

Last month, The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team received and adopted new health-based values for seven per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This new health-based values will be used to develop statewide regulatory drinking water standards. The Science Advisory Workgroup presented the following recommendations and the reasoning for their findings to...