Over the next three years, the Flint River Restoration Project will transform a two-mile stretch of the river that winds through downtown Flint.

The Mott Foundation is funding research into possible alternatives to transporting oil through a pipeline that crosses the Straits of Mackinac.

The World Bank will end financing of oil and gas projects after 2019. The decision could free up $1 billion annually for clean, renewable energy projects.

The Mott Foundation alters its Environment Program to provide more funding for work on the Great Lakes, energy access in Africa.

Conservation groups and philanthropists in Canada and the U.S. teamed up to acquire 13 miles of pristine Lake Superior shoreline.

A loan fund that Mott helped launch has preserved 125,000 acres of natural habitat and water resources in the Great Lakes basin.

Tim Eder, who has served as executive director of the Great Lakes Commission since 2006, is joining the Mott Foundation as a program officer in the Environment Program.

Large cities and corporations are taking the lead on deploying climate change solutions.

The proposed 2018 federal budget would slash funding for programs that safeguard the Great Lakes and protect public health.