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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's report, "Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities," gives guidance on preparing for climate change in an environmentally just way.
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An owner of property on Lawton Street in Detroit's Core City neighborhood wants to bring in a concrete recycling facility, but neighbors say they don't want to breathe silica dust.
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Environmental justice advocates say communities already suffering the burden of poor air quality need air quality sensors to determine how safe their air really is to breathe. Public comment on the state's proposed monitoring network ends today.
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy says ozone levels in Metro Detroit have declined significantly since the 1990s.
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The city has filed a lawsuit calling the site “blighted, illegally occupied, unsafe and/or dangerous as a public nuisance and danger to the safety and welfare of the public.” It seeks a court ruling for the defendant-owners to clean up the property at their own expense, or risk having the city do it for them—and possibly seizing the property.
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Detroit’s Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department (BSEED) denied the permit to Murray Wikol, head of Can-Am International Trade Crossing, noting a number of problems with the application.
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Residents of Core City say it would be an environmental injustice to put the heavy industrial site in their residential neighborhood. They’re pushing Detroit officials to deny the facility a permit.
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The company invested $1.6 billion to convert a former engine plant to build the new Jeep Grand Cherokee, but the state said it didn't properly treat fumes coming from the paint department.
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Detroit has a problem with bad air. But how bad is it, and where are the hotspots? Gaps in air quality monitoring mean we often don’t know. But some community members are trying to fix that.
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Officials held a congressional hearing in Detroit Thursday about what they called “sacrifice zones.” That’s their term for areas where Americans feel like their lives are being risked by corporate polluters.