The EPA’s termination of the $7 billion Solar for All program halts solar power access for nearly one million low-income households, including $156 million in Michigan projects.
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VOICES: Artificial food dyes are a Red (40) herring while feds decimate public health
The Trump administration’s actions in the public health arena contradict its “Make America Healthy Again” language, writes Teresa Homsi, the deputy director of the Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action.
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Judge blocks shipment of Manhattan Project radioactive waste to Wayne County landfill
Runoff from Wayne Disposal, if not fully contained and treated onsite, would flow into one or more county drains and drain into Belleville Lake, the Huron River, and Lake Erie, says Wayne County circuit judge.
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DTE Energy lawyer: Utility not liable for Zug Island facility in Clean Air Act lawsuit
The EPA’s position of holding the parent company liable would “destroy” the point of corporations, and “pierce the corporate veil,” an attorney for DTE Energy and EES Coke Battery says in federal court.
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Mary Sheffield, Solomon Kinloch emerge winners in Detroit mayoral primary
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield emerges as the frontrunner in the city’s mayoral primary, with more than half the vote.
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Annexation is Rogelio Landin’s central strategy in Detroit mayoral write-in campaign: ‘More is more’
Write-in Detroit mayoral candidate Rogelio Landin calls for annexation of 28 communities around Detroit to form a larger, more efficient city.
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Attorney Todd Perkins says Detroit will be ‘environmentally conscious’ if he’s mayor
The rollbacks in federal pollution regulations are “draconian,” says attorney and Detroit mayoral candidate Todd Perkins.
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Detroit mayoral candidate Jonathan Barlow on balancing development, environment: ‘Before they get, they have to give’
By the time a Detroit economic development project reaches the community benefits stage, it’s too late to secure environmental protections, says mayoral candidate Jonathan Barlow.
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Lifelong Detroiter DaNetta Simpson’s priority in mayoral campaign? ‘Neighborhoods.’
DaNetta Simpson, who is running for Detroit mayor for the third time, is a lifelong resident with a plan for a city insurance program to address home repairs and blight.
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Canadian wildfire smoke triggers Wayne County’s 16th air quality alert of 2025
Detroit’s air ranks fourth worst in the world Monday, according to the index published by the website IQAir — between Baku, Azerbaijan and Jakarta, Indonesia.