toxic waste

Shipments of contaminated soil from a site in Luckey, Ohio, to a Michigan waste facility are on hold after a judge intervened in a a separate matter and paused shipments of radioactive waste from New York state to the Michigan site.

US stops hazardous waste shipments to Michigan from Ohio after court decision

The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio. It's the ripple effect after a judge intervened in a different matter.

The Niagara Falls Storage Site holds World War II-era radioactive materials from the effort to build the first atomic bomb. A Wayne County judge issued a restraining order to pause a planned shipment of that waste from New York on September 18, 2024.

Environment & Climate Change

Judge suspends delivery of radioactive soil from New York to Michigan

Ed White | The Associated Press

A judge has — at least temporarily — stopped the delivery of World War II-era radioactive soil from New York to a Detroit-area landfill.

Stateside

Stateside: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023

Stateside Staff

Today, what role oversight plays in the reliability of the grid and how elected officials are responding to more frequent outages. Then, we checked in on a hazardous waste dump in Van Buren Township, and its connection to toxic waste from the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Plus, a look at a new comic centering the stories of Black queer icons.

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Detroit and Hamtramck leaders urge Snyder to veto radioactive waste bills

Bryce Huffman

State and local leaders are urging Governor Rick Snyder to veto two bills on how the state deals with some kinds of radioactive waste.One bill would…