September 11, 2020 Getting the lead out: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) nearly $1.9 million...
Community residents raised concerns about a permit request submitted by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for both their Detroit Assembly Complex Mack Plant and their Jefferson...
In November of 2018, an explosion at a US Ecology facility just outside Grand View, Idaho, population 450, killed one person and injured three. The...
Sept. 4, 2020 Toxic justice? A recent decision to allow US Ecology to massively expand its toxic waste storage facility on the Detroit/Hamtramck border has...
To learn more about why environmental justice matters the ways poor communities are more vulnerable to the climate crisis, Planet Detroit spoke with Jamesa Johnson-Greer,...
In 1870, Detroit had a problem. The City Council had the desire and funds to build a leisure park in downtown Detroit, but could not...
Drone photographs show masses of dead canopy trees on Belle Isle, especially where Lake Okonoka has inundated the island’s Wet-Mesic Flatwoods ecosystem, a swampy type...
People of color have intimate relationships with the natural world, and environmental injustice disproportionately harms them. So why are environmental orgs dominated by white people?...
State's plan prioritizes upgrades to Detroit's wastewater treatment plant over agricultural runoff....
by Nadia Gaber, PhD “Wash your hands.†If we’ve heard one thing consistently since the start of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it is “wash...
