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Sweeping set of bills tackling child lead exposure discussed in Michigan House

by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak

A sweeping set of bipartisan bills aiming to reduce childhood lead exposure are making their way through the Michigan Legislature, with provisions that would strengthen intervention and monitoring across state programs, the medical profession and the real estate industry.  The state House Committee on Health Policy discussed a package of bills to reform Michigan’s lead […]

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OPINION: All Michigan children should be tested for lead at one and two years of age

by Melissa Cooper Sargent

Thousands of Michigan children are lead poisoned each year and nothing is done about it… because no one even knows it’s happening. Not even their families know because their children haven’t been tested — and families don’t even know that they should be tested. In 2019, more than 4,000 children in Michigan were identified as […]

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Climate resilience hubs find a foothold on Detroit’s East Side by helping residents face disasters

by David Sands

This story is a joint collaboration between Model D and Planet Detroit. The torrential rains that hit Southeast Michigan this summer really turned life upside down for Detroiter Delores “Misty” Davis.  Davis, who works in the entertainment industry, lives with three relatives in a two-story house located in the East Side’s McDougall-Hunt neighborhood. In late June, […]

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From the Headlines – November 29-December 2, 2021

Avatar photo by Brian Allnutt

Riverfront redux: The Detroit Bulk Storage site on the Detroit River has collapsed, again. A previous collapse in 2019 raised concerns about radioactive contamination from the site–which had been used to make atomic bomb components–moving into downstream drinking water intakes. However, no excessive levels of radioactivity or other contamination from soils and sediments were found following that […]

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Michigan’s rules for testing lead in drinking water may give ‘false sense of confidence’ in water quality

Avatar photo by Tom Perkins

This story co-published with HuffPost. New lead rules Michigan instated in 2018 following the Flint water crisis were heralded as the nation’s strictest, but lax enforcement and flaws in testing protocols are making the state’s drinking water appear safer than it likely is, a Planet Detroit and HuffPost analysis of state records finds.  Public health […]