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Protesters to gather in Detroit neighborhood to oppose a concrete crushing plant
Residents say the proposal is the latest example of environmental racism in the city
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, CanAm International Trade Crossing, concrete, environmental racism, pollution, Core City, Detroit, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Sen. Chang
Tlaib slams big polluters in Detroit for ‘flagrant disregard’ for residents
The congresswoman turned up the heat on Stellantis and U.S. Ecology for air violations
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Rashida Tlaib, U.S. Congress, Ro Khanna, Detroit, Michigan, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, pollution, environmental racism, U.S. Ecology, Stellantis
Tlaib introduces bill aimed at curtailing environmental racism
In Michigan and other states, polluters are often concentrated in communities of color
Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Detroit, Congress, U.S. House, Rashida Tlaib, 48217, environmental racism, pollution, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Environmental Protection Agency
Opinion: Michigan military bases put environment at risk
Negligent practices by the U.S. army disproportionately impact vulnerable minority communities
By Jonathan Sharp
Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Michigan, U.S. army, the Wurtsmith Air Force Base, pollution, contamination, environment, PFAS
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
Environmental racism in Detroit takes center stage at congressional hearing
‘Regulators must take action to end the disparate impact on predominantly Black communities,’ Rep. Tlaib said
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Rep. Tlaib, Rep. Dingell, Congress, U.S. House, Detroit, environmental racism, environmental justice, Nick Leonard, pollution, Stellantis, U.S. Ecology
Detroiters call for environmental protections caused by hazardous-waste plant
U.S. Ecology received two dozen violation notices for environmental contamination since 2014
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Environment, Environmental racism, Rashida Tlaib, Aiyash Abraham, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, pollution, U.S. Ecology
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
Prosecutors stopped pursuing racketeering case against public officials over Flint water crisis, according to report
Tags: Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, Flint, Flint water crisis, Michigan, pollution, Bill Schuette
Judge allows Flint water lawsuit against engineering company to proceed
Tags: Flint, Flint water crisis, Veolia North America, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, pollution, lead, Judge Judith Levy
Pungent odor near Detroit Jeep plant prompts civil rights complaint against state environmental regulators
Tags: Michigan, smell, Stellantis, environment, environmental racism, Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, Title VI Civil Right, federal civil rights complaint, automaker, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, air quality, pollution
State launches website amid air quality violations at Stellantis plants
Tags: Stellantis, Detroit, pollution, environmental, Michigan, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, environmental racism
Amid foul odor, Detroit residents demand meeting with Stellantis but are rebuffed
Tags: environmental racism, Detroit, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, Detroit people's platform, Mack Assembly Plant, pollution, Stellantis, Auburn Hills, petitions
City Council approves ordinance to protect Detroit River from another industrial collapse
Tags: Detroit River, Detroit, Detroit City Council, environmental, Detroit River Protection Ordinance, pollution
‘Forever chemicals’ found at three Michigan military bases near the Great Lakes
Tags: Department of Defense, military, Harrison Township, PFAS, pollution, contamination, chemicals, Great Lakes, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Harrison Township, Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, Alpena County Regional Airport, Alpena
Levin introduces bill to prevent air pollution from incinerated PFAS
Tags: PFAS, Andy Levin, Congress, U.S. House, pollution, Michigan, Washington D.C.
Seven Great Lakes communities collaborate on cleanup effort
Tags: Great Lakes, Michigan, pollution, environment
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
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