As scary as it is to think of an impaired bus driver shuttling your kids, wouldn’t you also want to know if someone might have been stoned while operating a nuclear power plant?

The federal government apparently doesn’t want you to know.

Two years after implementing an online tool to reduce the impacts of excessive water withdrawal from the Great Lakes, funding that supports the Michigan project has dropped by more than 90 percent.

Need to find a beach near Lake Ontario where it’s safe to swim? There’s an app for that.
The Lake Ontario Waterkeeper developed the iPhone swim guide.

A new federal report says it’s cheaper and easier to test water quality from space than it is from a boat or a dock. Data gathered by hand can be extrapolated to satellite imagery.

It’s an important advance in lake-heavy regions where it is expensive and challenging to visit every body of water.

Still, gathering data the old-fashioned way is not obsolete.

A new state effort is targeting the shrinking amount of habitat land for grassland birds in the Lower Peninsula by focusing on pheasant restoration.

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Are you tired of sitting in a classroom to learn about the environment? Why not go outside to touch and feel nature?

Two success stories in the 2011 State of the Birds report are from within the Great Lakes region – the Bartel Grassland restoration project outside of Chicago, Ill., and the state of the Kirtland’s warbler in Michigan.

Nearly 15 billion gallons of sewage has been swimming in Michigan’s rivers, lakes and streams since January, a construction trade association group recently announced.

Wisconsin takes another step back, Chicago continues undue influence, sewage bill has no takers and EPA is tone deaf on democracy.

Profiling is allowed for solving this kind of crime.

Health authorities type bacteria to identify sources of pollution contaminating beaches.