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Planet Detroit

Planet Detroit helps you get smarter about the environment in Detroit and Michigan. Planet Detroit’s stories and weekly newsletter focus on explanatory, solutions-based and investigative reporting, and a deep commitment to community engagement around local environmental issues. Planet Detroit’s mission is to raise awareness about Metro Detroit’s environmental and public health issues, hold powerful entities accountable and help our audience connect with their local environment and take action to protect the health of their communities.

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
Get ready for The Dig, bringing you all the dirt on Detroit development and real estate
Coming this month from Detour Detroit: A newsletter examining the built environment, for all of Detroit’s 143 square miles.
At the Detroit SlutWalk, activists put sexual assault survivors first
Throughout the spring and summer, Detroiters have protested daily for racial justice, following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna
Detroit voter survey: Your voice matters
Detroiters' votes count -- and we want your help in developing our election coverage.
What it’s like for young Detroit photographers documenting Black Lives Matter protests
“It’s sad to see this happening over and over again, but it’s empowering to see young people taking charge and
From the Headlines
Sept. 4, 2020 Toxic justice? A recent decision to allow US Ecology to massively expand its toxic waste storage facility
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
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
This week in Sidewalk Botany:
One was used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The other is fun to step on.
Detroit’s ballot tracker was meant to instill trust in voting by mail. For some voters, it did the opposite
Everything we know about BallotTrax, the Detroit ballot tracker that caused confusion for some voters who cast votes by mail.