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

Weâ€™ll be offering ways to help get you thinking about the outdoors and indoors â€” and how your local environment and health are connected â€”...

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â€˜Tiger Damsâ€™ provide Jefferson Chalmers with flooding solution â€” for now

“A little bit unattractive, but it’s better.. than the sandbags.” That’s how Detroit General Services Department Project Manager Crystal Perkins described the water-filled â€˜Tiger Damsâ€™...

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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 coal-fired plants by 2022....

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Metro Detroit has its share of old, hazardous dams

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave Michiganâ€™s dams a C- on its most 2018 infrastructure report card (better than the roads, storm drains and...

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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 â€” less than the 9% increase DTE had requested in their June...

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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 areaâ€™s residents, is often the...

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Detroitâ€™s Eastside faces â€˜two nightmaresâ€™ of flooding and COVID-19

Scripps Street on April 3. Photo by Brian Allnutt. On Scripps street in Detroitâ€™s Jefferson Chalmers Neighborhood, Blake Grannum, 36, has been nervously watching the...

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Water organizers rush to deliver bottled water to Detroit residents as COVID-19 spreads

On Saturday morning on March 21, around a dozen volunteers wearing gloves and masks were helping unload an Absopure water truck at St. Peterâ€™s Episcopal...

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As EPA suspends enforcement, EGLE moves forward with air pollution permits, offers ‘regulatory flexibility’

Theresa Landrumâ€™s neighborhood in the shadow of the Marathon Oil Refinery. Photo courtesy Landrum. Theresa Landrumâ€™s neighborhood in the 48217 zip code is surrounded by...

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QUESTION: I’ve heard that COVID-19 is caused by 5G. What’s up with that?

A conspiracy theory began floating around on social media in March linking the rollout of 5G technology with the emergence of the novel coronavirus and...

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