State officials suspect hot weather, low oxygen and decomposing vegetation intensified a seasonal fish die-off on a refilled reservoir.
Garret Ellison is a journalist at MLive, where he has covered Michigan's environment, natural resources, and the Great Lakes since 2014. His work primarily focuses on water policy, pollution, and the impacts of climate change, with notable investigations into Nestle's water bottling practices and Wolverine Worldwide's PFAS pollution. Ellison has been featured in MLive and NewsBreak for his in-depth reporting on these critical environmental issues.