environmental justice

State Senator Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton) introduced a bill last week that would tighten restrictions for hazardous waste facilities, including those licensed to take radioactive waste.

Environmental activists and residents are pushing for air quality monitors in some of Southwest Detroit's most polluted neighborhoods. We checked in on their progress. We also revisit a conversation with the late Greg Harden, a mentor to some of University of Michigan's top athletes.

Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has updated an online tool that maps which communities may be most susceptible to adverse effects from pollution.

Three Michigan cities won federal funds to support more sustainable transportation.

The Clear the Air Coalition argues that Michigan environmental regulators are too focused on technical compliance with environmental laws at the expense of public health.

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.

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.

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.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy says ozone levels in Metro Detroit have declined significantly since the 1990s.

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.