Environmental Justice

From the Headlines

September 11, 2020 Getting the lead out: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and…

4 years ago

Community raises concern about FCA expansion, call for better testing and community benefits

Community residents raised concerns about a permit request submitted by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for both their Detroit Assembly Complex…

4 years ago

Did Michigan violate civil rights law with its permit to US Ecology?

In November of 2018, an explosion at a US Ecology facility just outside Grand View, Idaho, population 450, killed one…

4 years ago

From the Headlines

Sept. 4, 2020 Toxic justice? A recent decision to allow US Ecology to massively expand its toxic waste storage facility…

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Jamesa Johnson-Greer: A conversation on why poor communities will suffer the most from climate change

To learn more about why environmental justice matters the ways poor communities are more vulnerable to the climate crisis, Planet…

4 years ago

Hog Island and Detroit’s ‘park question’: A brief history of Belle Isle

In 1870, Detroit had a problem. The City Council had the desire and funds to build a leisure park in…

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How has flooding impacted Belle Isle’s ‘imperiled’ Wet-Mesic Flatwoods forest?

Drone photographs show masses of dead canopy trees on Belle Isle, especially where Lake Okonoka has inundated the island’s Wet-Mesic…

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Metro Detroit’s environmental organizations are largely white. Some are working to change that.

People of color have intimate relationships with the natural world, and environmental injustice disproportionately harms them. So why are environmental…

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A new plan to reduce phosphorus pollution in Lake Erie pits farmers against Detroiters

State's plan prioritizes upgrades to Detroit's wastewater treatment plant over agricultural runoff.

4 years ago

OPINION: Why public water shutoffs are a crisis multiplier for coronavirus

by Nadia Gaber, PhD “Wash your hands.”  If we’ve heard one thing consistently since the start of the novel coronavirus…

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