Environmental Justice
Researchers predict a combined heatwave and blackout in Detroit could be worse than Katrina. Here’s why.
A new study shows that Detroit is in serious danger from a simultaneous heatwave and power outages that causes blackouts.
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Profiles in the fight for environmental justice: Dr. Tony Reames
Dr. Reames is a Black researcher at the highest levels of academia studying issues that directly affect Black people.
From the Headlines
September 11, 2020 Getting the lead out: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and…
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…
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…