How to Prevent the Next Flint

Behind every crisis, there's a canary in the coal mine calling out a warning.  For the Flint Water Crisis, that...

Learn Sustainability Tips and Tricks at the Environmental Resource Gala

Have you ever wondered what small steps you can take to reduce your waste and be more ecologically conscious? An...

Flint’s Problems Didn’t Start with Water

Jake Neher/WDET While the lead poisoning in Flint continues to devastate the city’s residents, there is so much more than...

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...