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State slaps Stellantis with 8th violation for stench from Jeep plant in Detroit
Despite repeated violations for the odors, the pungent smell continues to make life miserable for the predominantly Black neighborhood
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Environment, Stellantis, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Mack Assembly Complex, factory, odor, EGLE, Michigan, Detroit, environmental racism
Detroit redevelopment projects get boost with $5.8M in brownfield grants
One of the projects includes transforming the former American Motor Company (AMC) headquarters into a manufacturing facility
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, American Motor Company, blighted buildings, redevelopment, EGLE, BSEED, Detroit, brownfield grants
Opinion: Michigan’s blue trifecta will be judged by progress on environmental justice
There are many urgent issues on the table, but none deserve more attention than the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and raise our children free from cancer-causing pollutants
By Theresa Landrum
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Views & Opinions, Democrats, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Stellantis, 48217, Southwest Detroit, EGLE, Zug Island, Sierra Club
Redevelopment projects get brownfield funding to clean up contaminated sites in Detroit
Tags: Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, Michigan, EGLE, brownfield sites, brownfield grants, redevelopments, apartments, park, Detroit River
City Council considers ordinance to protect Detroit River from another industrial collapse
Tags: EGLE, Michigan, Detroit, ordinance, environmental, Detroit City Council, Public Health and Safety Committee, Detroit River, Sierra Club, Raquel Castañeda-López
Environmentalists warn AK Steel of impending lawsuit for exceeding air pollution limits
Tags: AK Steel, pollution, EPA, EGLE, Clean Air Act, lawsuit, Sierra Club, Environment Michigan
Michigan orders Marathon refinery to pay fines, improve air quality in Southwest Detroit
Tags: Marathon Oil, consent agreement, EGLE, Michigan, pollution, environmental racism
Marathon refinery offers to buy $5M worth of homes in southwest Detroit to create buffer
Tags: Marathon, oil refinery, Southwest Detroit, Boynton, EGLE, EPA, pollution, vacant houses, Marathon Petroleum Corp., Michigan, Detroit, racism, environmental racism
Michigan slaps $60,000 fine on company responsible for dock collapse along Detroit River
Tags: EGLE, Michigan, Revere Dock, Detroit River, Detroit, environmental, Sierra Club, southwest Detroit
Civil rights complaint urges Michigan to halt the environmental racism of hazardous waste sites
Tags: News Hits, Environmental racism, Sierra Club, hazardous waste sites, racism, Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, Michigan, Gov. Whitmer, EGLE, civil rights, civil rights complaint
Michiganders find solidarity in fighting hazardous waste
By Mary Schuermann Kuhlman, Michigan News Connection
Tags: News Hits, EGLE, environmental, Detroit, US Ecology
Expansion of hazardous waste plant in Detroit smacks of 'environmental racism,' Rep. Robinson says
Tags: News Hits, Democrats, Lansing, EGLE, environmental, environmental racism, Rep. Isaac Robinson, Detroit, US Ecology, Gov. Whitmer
Hazardous waste plant in Detroit with history of serious violations gets state approval to expand almost ninefold
Tags: News Hits, Environmental, 48217, US Ecology, Gov. Whitmer, EGLE, Detroit, Michigan, pollution
City of Detroit starts to get serious about recycling
Tags: News Hits, Environmental, Recycling, EGLE, Michigan, Detroit, Detroit Department of Public Works, Liesl Clark
Green liquid that oozed onto I-696 is likely the toxic chemical featured in 'Erin Brockovich'
Tags: News Hits, Environmental, Madison Heights, I-696, chemicals, toxic, OSHA, EPA, EGLE
Netflix is still looking for Detroit ‘Love is Blind’ contestants
By Lee DeVito
Tigers fixing up run-down Comerica Park ahead of Opening Day with $30M investment
Royal Oak’s Hideaway has been transformed into the bar from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
By Layla McMurtrie