John Flesher

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EPA awards $8.6 million to reduce Lake Erie algae

John Flesher · October 20, 2014 9:22 pm

Study: Lake Erie vulnerable to bacteria blooms

John Flesher · October 15, 2014 7:24 pm

Snyder wants review of radioactive waste standards

John Flesher · August 25, 2014 9:35 pm

This April 11, 2014 aerial photo provided by Eagle Mine, shows the Eagle Mine operations near Marquette, Mich. The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by state environmental regulators to allow construction of the nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula. The mine has been constructed and is scheduled to begin producing minerals this fall. (AP Photo/Eagle Mine)

Appeals court OKs permits for Upper Peninsula mine

John Flesher · August 13, 2014 6:26 pm

Kellogg wants suppliers to report carbon emissions

John Flesher · August 13, 2014 11:10 am

Groups sue over steel plant’s air emissions permit

John Flesher · July 21, 2014 9:32 pm

Michigan denies Detroit oil byproduct storage

John Flesher · July 17, 2014 9:01 pm

Questions and answers about saltwater spills

John Flesher · July 10, 2014 11:22 pm

Groups want tougher action on Great Lakes pipeline

John Flesher · July 1, 2014 11:35 pm

Michigan regulators OK fish hatchery expansion

John Flesher · July 1, 2014 7:46 pm

FILE - In this 2012 file photo provided by 5gyres.org, a sample of "microbeads" collected in eastern Lake Erie is shown on the face of a penny. Illinois environmentalists expecting a battle with business over a call for a ban on the tiny bits of plastic used in personal care products, found the industry quickly collaborated. With similar bans pending in at least three other large states, the extinction of microbeads, now showing up inside fish that are caught for human consumption, is happening in an unusually short amount of time. (AP Photo/Courtesy 5gyres.org, Carolyn Box, File)

In odd twist, industry agrees to ban ‘microbeads’

John Flesher · June 18, 2014 8:58 pm

In this May, 2014 photo provided by Eagle Mine a rock bolter, which drills and installs bolts to stabilize the mine, moves through a tunnel at the mine in Marquette County, Mich. The nickel and copper operation, scheduled to begin production this fall, will pump $4 billion into Marquette County over its eight-year lifespan and employ about 300 while generating economic activity that will create 1,200 additional jobs, according to the company. (AP Photo/Courtesy Eagle Mine)

Troubled mining industry now resurgent in Midwest

John Flesher · June 10, 2014 5:51 pm