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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MICHIGAN CLIMATE HEADLINES
*You can always find past Michigan Climate News stories and subscribe to new ones on Bulletin, and you can keep up with us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Got an idea for a Michigan climate story? Pitch us here.* SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER HERE Bathtub: The Great Lakes just had their warmest November on record […]
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From the Headlines – November 29-December 2, 2021
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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Hunting, fishing, and climate change in Michigan
By Nina Ignaczak *You can always find past Michigan Climate News stories and subscribe to new ones on Bulletin, and you can keep up with us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Got an idea for a Michigan climate story? Pitch us here.* SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER HERE Last fall, Nick Green was sitting around the […]
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The future of Michigan mobility: Autonomous rideshare, e-bikes, and propane-powered vehicles?
Though many of us grew up expecting to see flying cars as the future of transit, we’re not quite there yet. But as we struggle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a group of multimodal transportation advocates believes that the future of mobility lies with options beyond electric cars — and they assembled a group of […]
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Michigan’s rules for testing lead in drinking water may give ‘false sense of confidence’ in water quality
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 […]
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MICHIGAN CLIMATE HEADLINES
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MICHIGAN CLIMATE HEADLINES
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Here's how Michigan plans to respond to climate change
*You can always find past Michigan Climate News stories and subscribe to new ones on Bulletin, and you can keep up with us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Got an idea for a Michigan climate story? Pitch us here.* SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER HERE Michigan has a new plan for climate change, and state officials […]
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From the headlines – November 15-19, 2021
Disparate impacts: East side Detroit residents filed a civil rights complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arguing that the state discriminated against the neighborhood’s predominantly Black and low-income population when it allowed Stellantis to expand its Mack assembly plant. Stellantis–formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles–had agreed to reduce emissions at a plant in predominantly white Warren in order to […]