Highland Park’s Water Director: “The Water Is Safe To Drink”
Last week, Highland Park city officials announced that testing in nine residences in revealed elevated levels of lead. Officials urged caution,...
Detroit’s East Side is Already Polluted. Will Fiat Chrysler Make It Worse?
When Amoni Pitts hears trucks working one street over from where she lives, she worries about being able to breathe....
How The Washington D.C. Lead Crisis Foreshadowed Flint
In 2004, the Washington Post reported that a change in water treatment chemicals at the Washington D.C. aqueduct four years...
Highland Park Finds High Levels of Lead in Drinking Water, but Officials Caution Against Panic
Eleanore Catolico Correction appended, 4:47 pm, July 19, 2019: The original version of this post misstated the number of lead service lines...
Gov. Whitmer On First Six Months: Legislature Took a Break “Before the Work was Done”
Jake Neher/WDET The first half of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first year in office has passed, and there’s been a lot of...
Jefferson-Chalmers Residents and City Clash Over Flooding
Eli Newman Record high water levels in the Great Lakes and a wet summer have caused flooding along Jefferson-Chalmers, one...
Proposed Detroit Ordinance Would Measure City’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
There's a new effort to improve Detroit's environmental standards coming from Detroit City Councilman Scott Benson. Earlier this month, Benson...
Ecological Grief: Learning to Deal with Climate Change and Species Loss
With extreme weather patterns becoming the new normal, species loss, climate devastation and expert voices telling us that in the not too distant future many of us...
AG Dana Nessel On Why Enbridge Line 5 Should Be Shut Down
Jake Neher/WDET Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has been busy lately, from efforts to institute a ban on sexual relationships...
Journalist Ron Fonger Reflects On Flint Water Crisis, Five Years Later
One of the key figures in the Flint Water Crisis, journalist Ron Fonger, joins host Stephen Henderson for a discussion about his...
Inaugural Earthwork Detroit Music Festival Comes to Dequindre Cut Greenway
Artists, activists and community organizers are coming together next Wednesday at the Dequindre Cut Greenway for the first annual Earthwork Detroit...
How Trump’s Trade and Tariff Policy is Affecting Michigan Industries
President Donald Trump uses the strength of the US economy as a talking point to tout the strength and growth...