environment

Why EcoWorks’ ED Justin Schott is resigning to end 25 years of straight white male leadership

EcoWorks staff Justin Schott was always a little unsettled about his position as executive director for Detroit environmental nonprofit EcoWorks.…

5 years ago

How safe are Metro Detroit’s dams? We broke down the data

It shouldn’t have been a surprise when two dams in mid-Michigan dams failed on May 19th—they are two of hundreds…

5 years ago

Do you have a question? Ask Planet Detroit!

Do you have questions about your air, water, soil, food, energy, and health? We’re here to help answer your questions…

5 years ago

Join ‘Detroiters Do Science’ in June for a BioBlitz with iNaturalist

We’ll be offering ways to help get you thinking about the outdoors and indoors — and how your local environment…

5 years ago

‘Tiger Dams’ provide Jefferson Chalmers with flooding solution — for now

"A little bit unattractive, but it's better.. than the sandbags." That's how Detroit General Services Department Project Manager Crystal Perkins…

5 years ago

Sierra Club, DTE agree to retire 3 coal plants by 2022

The Sierra Club filed a settlement agreement in federal court Friday committing DTE Energy to retire three of its five…

5 years ago

Metro Detroit has its share of old, hazardous dams

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave Michigan’s dams a C- on its most 2018 infrastructure report card (better than…

5 years ago

DTE gets a rate increase, along with more accountability

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved a 4.7% rate increase for DTE customers last week —  less than the 9% increase DTE…

5 years ago

Why the 2020 Census has a big impact on environmental justice in Detroit

The data gathered by the U.S. Census, which includes information on the age, racial background and income level of an…

5 years ago

Detroit’s Eastside faces ‘two nightmares’ of flooding and COVID-19

Scripps Street on April 3. Photo by Brian Allnutt. On Scripps street in Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers Neighborhood, Blake Grannum, 36,…

5 years ago