STAY INFORMED
In The Media
DETROITERS WORKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE NEWS
How Detroit Hopes to Save the Decimated Neighborhood of Delray Detroit News, 12/9/2020
“Maps Highlight Michigan Cities, Groups That Will Bear Brunt of Climate Change Effects” University of Michigan, 11/6/2019
“There’s No Debating Environmental Racism in Detroit” Sojourners, 8/2/2019
“Toward a Sustainable Detroit” Detroit Metro Times, 4/11/2018
“GLISA Collaborates with Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice to Develop Detroit’s Climate Action Plan” Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments, 10/26/2017
“Detroit’s Climate Action Plan” Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments, 2017
“How Detroit’s Climate Change Activists are Using Science to Plan for a Warmer City” Model D, 10/31/2016
“Announcing Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: A New Initiative to Improve Air Quality in Detroit” University of Michigan Healthy Environments Partnership
“Improving Air Quality in the Motor City” University Research Corridor Newsletter
“The Detroit Youth Climate Summit” NOAA, Climate.gov, 11/28/2015
“How Motor City Mapping Became a Template for Citywide Collaboration” Michigan Nonprofit Association, 2/13/2015
“Clearing the Air: Environmental Justice in Detroit” The Michigan Daily, 11/4/2014
“Detroit Environmental Activist to Help Shape Inaugural United Nations Environmental Assembly” MLive, 12/2/2013
“Detroiter Honored by White House Speaks Out on Environmental Justice” Chicago Defender, 5/1/2013
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NEWS
“The Racist Suffocation of Environmental Justice” The Hill, 7/5/2020
“Detroit’s Poor Air Quality Could be Worsening the City’s COVID-19 Outbreak” Fox 2 Detroit, 4/14/2020
“How Racism and Poverty made Detroit a New Coronavirus Hot Spot” Vox, 4/10/2020
“Michigan Launches State’s First Environmental Justice Advisory Council” Ecos.org, 1/31/2020
“Struggling to Breathe in 48217, Michigan’s Most Toxic ZIP Code” Detroit Metro Times, 1/20/2020
“The Blackest City in the US is Facing an Environmental Justice Nightmare” The Guardian, 1/9/2020
“The Federal Government Has Been Slow to Act on Climate Change. So Michigan Cities are Taking Charge.” WVPE Indiana Public Radio, 8/16/2019
“U-M Study Reveals Hot Spots of Environmental Injustice Across Michigan” University of Michigan, 7/25/2019
“4.4 million people in the U.S. are exposed to pollution from waste incinerators” Tishman Environment and Design Center, 5/20/2019
“Updated: Detroit’s Garbage Incinerator is About to Belch its Final Cloud of Toxic Gas” Detroit Metro Times, 3/27/2019
“EPA: Black and Poor Neighborhoods More Likely to Have High Air Pollution” Detroit Metro Times, 2/26/2018
“Choking to Death in Detroit: Flint Isn’t Michigan’s Only Disaster” Newsweek, 3/30/2016