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.
Tracking and understanding all of the state and federal environmental regulations affecting local governments can be a daunting task. We provide simple explanations and helpful resources for the regulatory programs that apply to local government operations and access to funding resources that promote sustainability on this page.
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 celebrates Earth Day every year in April - celebrate with us!
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 Alert 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.
A complete list of health recommendations from the Department of Health and Human services.
Check the Air Quality Index daily on your weather app by visiting EGLE’s MiAir or the AirNow.gov web sites. During Air Quality Alerts, ozone or fine particulate levels may be harmful for your health.
Harmful levels of fine particulates (really tiny dust) can happen any time during the year. In the warmer drier months, especially in the summer, smoke from wildfires may cause high levels of PM2.5. During winter months when we get really strong ground-level weather inversions (when pollutants have nowhere to go and stay trapped at the ground level). Both of these may cause levels of pollutants to be high enough to cause an Air Quality Alert to be called.
An alert is issued when levels of PM2.5 are expected to be “unhealthy for sensitive groups (USG)”, “unhealthy”, “very unhealthy” or “hazardous”.
During days that reach "unhealthy to sensitive groups (USG)" and "unhealthy", it is recommended that, when possible, you avoid strenuous outdoor activities, especially those with heart disease and respiratory conditions like asthma. Watch for symptoms including wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, dizziness, or burning in nose, throat, and eyes.
You can help reduce air pollution by limiting activities, such as:
During periods when PM2.5 levels reach the Very Unhealthy to Hazardous range, it is important to reduce your exposure and take steps to protect your health. Everyone, especially individuals with heart or lung conditions, older adults, children, and pregnant people, should avoid strenuous outdoor activity and choose cleaner indoor air when possible.
Below are recommended actions to minimize exposure and improve indoor air quality during these elevated PM2.5 conditions:
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 Alerts
It is recommended that, when possible, you avoid strenuous outdoor activities, especially those with heart disease and respiratory conditions like asthma. Watch for symptoms including wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, dizziness, or burning in nose, throat, and eyes.
Positive Activities Include:
People and businesses are urged to avoid activities which can lead to ozone formation. These activities include:
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:
Take 60 seconds to learn about Air Quality Alerts, including what causes them and what you can should avoid doing during the hottest parts of the day.
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.
