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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Our meteorologists call Air Quality Action Days to protect you. These days are important for everyone, but especially for people with breathing problems like asthma as well as the elderly or young children.
On Air Quality Action Days, ozone levels may be harmful for your health. You may be thinking about the ozone layer - the natural invisible shield that helps protect us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays - we're not talking about that ozone. We're talking about harmful ground-level ozone.
Higher levels of ground-level ozone when the sun, weather, and certain pollutants all mix together just right. That usually happens around summertime (May - September), but that isn't the only time that we call Air Quality Action Days!
Harmful levels of fine particulates (really tiny dust) can happen any time during the year.
Typically we see that during winter months when we get really strong ground-level inversions (when pollutants have nowhere to go and stay trapped at the ground level).
These recommendations vary depending on which pollutant is mainly responsible for the Air Quality Action Day. For example, if it's caused by wildfire smoke, there's not much you can do to bring those levels down except avoiding making your indoor air quality worse.
Limit or avoid strenuous activity, such as:
Avoid gasoline-related activities, such as:
Avoid grilling and other outdoor burning, including:
Avoid activities that worsen indoor air quality, such as:
Air quality affects the environment and your overall health in countless ways.
Find information about quality issues in Michigan, including air quality related actions open for input from the public.
You may be more familiar with Ozone Action Days, which is an older term for Air Quality Action Days. This name was updated to include other fine particulate matter pollution (such as wildfire smoke) as well as ozone. For a period, Air Quality Action Days were also called Clean Air Action Days, though that term has also been retired.
