A new study shows that Detroit is in serious danger from a simultaneous heatwave and power outages that causes blackouts....
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Climate apocalypse vs. ‘stunning Michigan sunsets’...
Climate apocalypse vs. ‘stunning Michigan sunsets’...
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...
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...
