This week, read about clean school buses, MI Healthy Climate Fellows, and composting pumpkins





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MI Environment Fall Scenery at Lake Superior in AuTrain, Michigan

"MI Environment Digest - Oct. 31, 2025"

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Composting jack-o’-lanterns and pumpkins is catching on as communities offer super fun, creative ways to use and recycle them [ [link removed] ]

"October 31, 2025"

Michigan municipalities and others are offering new, creative ways to reuse and recycle jack-o’-lanterns and whole pumpkins so they don’t end up in a landfill.

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Pumpkin dump collected for composting at Michigan State University in 2019. (Courtesy of MSU.)

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Jolly good: MI Healthy Climate Fellows wrap up a high-achieving year [ [link removed] ]

"October 30, 2025"

Applications are open for the program’s third cohort to serve communities and agencies statewide.

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MI Healthy Climate fellows of Cohort 2 at the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy.

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EGLE launches new Michigan Lake Water Clarity dashboard [ [link removed] ]

"October 28, 2025"

The Michigan Lake Water Clarity Dashboard offers satellite-derived insights into lake clarity, algal biomass, and lake color—key indicators of inland lake water quality.

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Using satellite-derived insights, the map displays late summer averages for lake color, clarity, and algae concentrations

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Transportation transformation: Numbers of Michigan’s clean school buses keep growing [ [link removed] ]

"October 27, 2025"

The latest state grants support improvements in air quality, student health, and school budgets..

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EGLE Director Phil Roos joins others at an event celebrating of the deployment of 18 electric school buses recently in Dearborn.

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