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Planet Detroit is three reporters covering the environmental stories no one else will — no paywall, no corporate owner, no ads. This year, we exposed a decade-long fluoride cover-up in Wyandotte, were the only newsroom at the Zug Island air pollution trial, and broke the data center investigations that reached the Washington Post and the LA Times.
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Skyler Leslie, a Detroit River advocate and environmental justice graduate, is working to preserve the waterway’s layered history — from Indigenous burial mounds to Underground Railroad crossings — through community engagement and interpretive storytelling.
