David Sands is a Detroit-based freelance writer. He’s covered the news for Huffington Post Detroit as an assistant editor and worked as a staff writer for the transportation news site Mode Shift. He’s a frequent contributor to Model D and Metromode. Follow him on Twitter @dsandsdetroit.
Advocates are pushing for regulators to consider cumulative impact – the idea the totality of environmental threats affecting a community should be considered in permitting decisions – which is not typically how environmental permitting decisions are handled today.