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Nov 7, 2024 · Southwest Detroit remembers lives lost to air pollution ahead of Dia de Los Muertos. November 4, 2024. Planet Detroit’s environmental voter guide to the 2024 Michigan general election. November 3, 2024. Complaint alleges Michigan regulators ‘aided and abetted’ BASF’s criminal water pollution in Wyandotte for decades.
Michigan's environmental groups demand action in lame duck – …
18 hours ago · For Michigan’s environmental groups, 2023 was a big year. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat with bipartisan support from the legislature, acted on clean energy legislation, calling it another step in helping “the state stay on track to achieve 100% carbon neutrality by 2050.”. The non-profit advocacy group Michigan Environmental Council (MEC), …
Planet Detroit’s top environmental stories of 2023
Dec 21, 2023 · by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak and Brian Allnutt December 21, 2023. In a turbulent year for air quality, Detroit bore the brunt of the fallout from Canadian wildfires, earning the dubious honor of having the world’s worst air quality for several days over the summer. Climate change-fueled fires led to the city’s most severe ozone year in a ...
Study finds Detroit an air pollution hotspot – Planet Detroit
Apr 25, 2024 · A new report on U.S. air quality shows metro Detroit performing poorly when it comes to annual PM 2.5 or fine particulate matter pollution, while the Grand Rapids area deals with high levels of ozone. The American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air Report says that the climate crisis is worsening air pollution, with wildfires and heat increasing ozone and …
Detroit says its new climate strategy will empower residents. Activists ...
Detroit is rethinking its climate strategy, this time leaving more power to its residents by providing them with tools and funding. The Detroit Climate Strategy planning effort aims to produce a roadmap that will outline how the city will meet its “obligation to its residents to proactively prepare for climate impacts and create a more resilient Detroit.”
Detroit unveils new climate strategy, adopts energy and water ...
Nov 22, 2023 · The City of Detroit unveiled a new climate strategy today after the Detroit City Council unanimously approved an energy and water benchmarking ordinance for existing buildings during its final session of the year. The Detroit Climate Strategy details short-term actions that the city and its partners will undertake to combat climate change.
Climate resilience hubs find a foothold on Detroit's East Side by ...
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What Metro Detroiters should know about wetlands
Sep 17, 2024 · Climate change has already brought more rainfall and more severe storm events to the region. The Great Lakes region has seen a 14% increase in precipitation since the 1950s. Rainfall volume for 10-year storm events in Metro Detroit is expected to increase by 67% by mid-century and 138% by the end of the century, according to a SEMCOG analysis.
What’s the state of solar power in Michigan? – Planet Detroit
According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, Michigan had enough solar capacity to power 83,045 homes in the first quarter of 2021 — out of 4.6 million homes in the state. That’s just 1.8 percent of Michiganders’ homes. Solar companies numbered 188 in Michigan, employing 3,379 people out of 231,000 jobs nationwide. California employed more than 68,000, Florida …
Detroit River watershed management plan launches – Planet Detroit
Jun 5, 2024 · A plan for the River Rouge Watershed was approved in 2012. She added that the Detroit River Watershed Management Plan would cover those previously ignored areas, including the city’s east side, all of Hamtramck, and just over half of Highland Park. A watershed is the area of land that drains to a specific body of water, in this case, the ...
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