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Detroit part of national tour to promote electric vehicles, new EPA rules
By Farah Siddiqi, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Car Culture, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, electric vehicles in Detroit, the Big Three automakers, Route Zero Relay
Detroit neighborhood in court to hold industrial polluter accountable
Residents of River Rouge want the court to stop a DTE Energy subsidiary from emitting sulfur dioxide and other toxic substances from its Aug Island plant
By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, River Rouge
Tlaib introduces bill aimed at curtailing environmental racism
In Michigan and other states, polluters are often concentrated in communities of color
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Detroit, Congress, U.S. House, Rashida Tlaib, 48217, environmental racism, pollution, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes groups call proposed EPA PFAS rule a ‘watershed’ moment
PFAS chemicals linger in the environment and are linked to increased cancers and other health disorders
By Mary Schuermann Kuhlman, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes, Michigan, pollution, environment, PFAS
EPA probes whether state environmental regulators discriminated against Black Detroit residents with plant
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Detroit, pollution, environment, environmental racism, Michigan, Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, Stellantis
Biden unveils $1B plan to clean up polluted Great Lakes waterways, including 11 Michigan rivers
Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Detroit River, River Rouge, Clinton River, rivers, waterways, President Biden, Michigan, St. Clair River, Environmental Protection Agency
State regulators turn up heat on Stellantis over nauseating odor at Jeep plant
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Stellantis, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, automaker, Detroit, environmental racism, Environmental Protection Agency, Jeep Grand Cherokee
Groups say Trump budget threatens Michigan's water infrastructure
Tags: News Hits, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, budget plan, Trump budget, water, Michigan, Fiscal Year 2021, Flint water crisis, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, clean water programs
Nessel sues 17 companies including 3M, DuPont, for PFAS exposure
By Scott McClallen, The Center Square
Tags: News Hits, Attorney General, Nessel, lawsuit, Washtenaw County Circuit Court, PFAS, PFAO, PFOS, forever chemicals, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA
Report: Southeast Michigan's water is contaminated with carcinogens
By Tom Perkins
Tags: Table and Bar, TTHMs, Water, Detroit water, lead, carcinogens, Great Lakes Water Authority, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, radium, chromium, chromium hexavalent
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
Lapointe: For visitors, your NFL Draft city is the bedrock of the big leagues
By Joe Lapointe
Side Hustle Lounge opens in downtown Detroit just in time for the NFL Draft
By Layla McMurtrie