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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.

People are calling this obscure change to Detroit’s water bills the ‘rain tax’
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These doctors-in-training meet their patients under freeway overpasses and on street corners
At first glance, the seven people picking their way through the shadows of a southwest Detroit underpass at the end
OPINION: Detroit isn’t a tale of two cities. There’s something worse going on.
During the hours when people are in line to find secure housing, their means of transportation is silently whisked away.
Should the Detroit auto show park on Belle Isle?
It’s pretty irrational, when you stop and think about it, that Detroit’s largest festival happens each year in the dead
Detroit’s street grid is a lot stranger than it seems
It's definitely not as simple as counting the mile roads.
These moms built a Facebook group into a thriving community
Our Made Here series gets real with Detroit entrepreneurs and digs into the lessons and learnings behind the business plans.
Elon Musk says he can fix Flint’s water. Here’s what he should do instead.
Dear Mr. Elon Musk: We get it -- if you’re attempting to send mini-submarines into underwater caves and launch yourself into space, fixing
Want Medicaid in Michigan? Get a job.
By most accounts, the Healthy Michigan program, which gives 670,000 low-income Michiganders access to health care, has been a resounding
There’s nowhere like Hamtramck, USA
There’s nowhere like Hamtramck, USA: Filmmakers tug at the tense threads of diversity and community in an evolving city. By
Here’s why Detroit needs to get serious about supporting entrepreneurs of color
It's no secret that white, male-owned businesses generally make the most money. But the level of disparity for entrepreneurs in