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One hundred stationary air quality monitors are now operational, measuring pollutants like particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide in real time, officials say.

The three-year plan for the Wayne County Community Air Quality Project calls for installing 100 new stationary air monitors at strategic points throughout the county. The county will supplement that with 500 mobile monitors given to vulnerable residents, including children, who can clip them on their backpacks.

Wayne County Executive Warren Evans laid out the county’s plan to put 100 stationary air monitors throughout the county.

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.

A new report from the state’s health department says that Detroiters have asthma at increasingly higher rates than the rest of Michigan.

Detroit ranked tenth on a list of worst metropolitan areas in the U.S. for asthma attacks in African-American children due to oil and gas exposure. That’s…

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At the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, 11-year-old Brianna Allgood is being tested by a machine called a spirometer. It measures her breathing.Brianna has…

Children growing up in poverty face huge challenges. One challenge that might not come to the top of the mind, though, is pollution.As part of Michigan…

Michigan may not have a big problem with wild fires, but a new report claims Michigan does have a major problem with wildfire smoke.The Natural Resources…