A complete list of all programs within the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)
Community involvement and public participation are an essential part of EGLE’s mission, vision, and values.
SARA Title III establishes requirements regarding emergency planning and "Community Right-to-Know" reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals for federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as regulated facilities.
Resources and information on utilizing RRD's data exchange and the Inventory of Facilities.
An interactive map displaying contaminated sites throughout Michigan regulated under Parts 213, 201, and 211.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy’s (EGLE) Water Well Viewer (WWV), is an interactive mapping system that displays water wells along with other information, such as wellhead protection areas, underground storage tanks, and sites of environmental contamination. Water well locations have been identified by address matching, the use of global positioning systems (GPS), and by legal descriptions.
This system allows water well drilling and pump installation contractors to submit water well records.
EGLE's interactive calendar is designed to provide timely information on decisions before the Director, proposed settlements of contested cases, administrative rules promulgation, public hearings, meetings and comment deadlines, and environmental conferences, workshops and training programs.
Anyone wishing to formally serve legal documents upon the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), or its officers or employees, may do so by the following methods.
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November 24, 2025
Pushpoling on the water with manoomin. Credit Vincent Salgado. As part of Native American Heritage Month in Michigan, MI Environment is highlighting the Manoomin Stewardship Guide released earlier this year. EGLE is part of the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative.
The Michigan Wild Rice Initiative is a collaboration of the State of Michigan and the 12 federally recognized tribes within Michigan. It has brought specialists and managers together to share information, coordinate approaches, and elevate awareness about wild rice conservation and restoration. A major focus of the Initiative has been the development of a stewardship guide.
Finalized earlier this year, We All Live Together in a Good Way with Manoomin: Stewardship Guide tells the story of manoomin through an Anishinaabe perspective. It also explores the socio-ecological context of manoomin restoration and revitalization and offers a series of goals and objectives to support the work of the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative.
The guide – a living document – offers a series of goals and objectives that partners can help support as they choose. The goals are not standards or prescriptions across the manoomin community, as community members agreed on promoting decentralized, locally-centered efforts.
It offers direction for collaborative efforts, providing goals and objectives in three crucial areas: education and outreach; stewardship, and policy and protection.
“Don’t take the document in one sitting,” says Roger LaBine, Manoomin Chief of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. “It was a document drafted with input by many and captures the heart of the whole group. It outlines well what the goals and objectives should be and where we need to go. There’s a lot of knowledge that needs to be digested, absorbed and thought about.”
Sun shining on manoomin. Credit Vincent Salgado. In addition, the document provides a detailed overview of the significance of manoomin as a relative of the Anishinaabe people. The Anishinaabe people and manoomin have nurtured a sacred relationship for many generations. Therefore, the restoration efforts center support for Anishinaabe communities to reconnect and grow their relationships with manoomin. The guide shares personal stories from members of the manoomin community, offering messages from a variety of voices to enable readers to see themselves building a transformative relationship with manoomin. The storytellers highlight how manoomin has helped them flourish in face of difficulty and offer advice for how manoomin can help others.
A significant portion of the guide focuses on relationship building between and among the manoomin community and its allies. Although this may not be common among stewardship plans, having strong braids of relationship is central to these restoration and revitalization efforts, especially in the long term. The best available research, funding, and equipment are only as effective as the strength of kinship. To aid in braiding communities and partners, this document respectfully introduces readers to some core Anishinaabe moral teachings to ground the collaboration. It then offers extensive advice promising ideas and practices to kindle and nurture healthy relationships to grow the manoomin community in a good way.
Check out EGLE’s Wild Rice webpage for more information.
Katie Lambeth
Tribal Liaison
517-249-0906
MI Environment Team
517-284-9278
The approximately $2.9 million in Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program grants will support eight projects that will prevent, reduce, or eliminate polluted runoff and other nonpoint sources of pollution – caused when rain, snowmelt, or wind carry pollutants from land into lakes, streams, or wetlands.
EGLE’s recently published story map on contaminants of emerging concern covers what contaminants of emerging concern are; why they matter; and how EGLE is responding.
EGLE Director Phil Roos joined State Rep. Farhat, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and local leaders in Dearborn to highlight how state investments in brownfield redevelopment are driving local impact.
Consider leaving fall leaves where they land or raking them into your garden beds instead of burning them. They will provide nutrients and control soil erosion while creating spaces for winter dwellers to snuggle up until spring.
Dearborn event highlights brownfield redevelopment and the projects transforming neighborhoods across the state
Property formerly owned by the Lockhart Chemical Company, responsible for a 2022 oil spill into the Flint River, was sold to local company TRU Additives, which voluntarily entered an administrative agreement with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) that provides a compliance program to operate the facility consistent with environmental laws.
Thanks to a grant from EGLE, the Hendricks Foundation is refurbishing unwanted laptop computers for students needing internet access at home.
Winter is a safe time to prune oak trees.
The goal is to better understand the regional occurrence of metals in sources of drinking water and give consumers health information about their water quality.
