"DTE Energy is disconnecting thousands of customers while increasing rates and expanding fossil fuel infrastructure, according to a new report. Despite growing energy affordability concerns, the company has continued investing in natural gas and opposing community solar, even as its profits surged 41% in 2024." #Detroit #Michigan #DTE #PlanetDetroit #USPol cc: @BrianAllnutt https://planetdetroit.org/2025/02/dte-energy-disconnects-customers/

“This is a dangerous insertion of politics where…it shouldn’t belong and it doesn’t need to belong.” #AnnArbor #Michigan #USPol #EnvironmentalHealth #PublicHealth #PlanetDetroit https://planetdetroit.org/2025/01/epa-workers-concerned-trump-rollback/

"Southwest #Detroit residents have endured decades of pollution, noise and dust from freight trucks serving the Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal, going back to as early as 1938. Now, a $112 million federal infrastructure grant aims to modernize and decarbonize the facility... (but) some question whether these changes will simply expand the terminal’s capacity at their expense." #PlanetDetroit #Michigan #Pollution #Environment #EnvironmentalHealth #EnvironmentalJustice https://planetdetroit.org/2024/12/detroit-intermodal-freight-terminal-pollution/

"Patricia Redding lives in the highly industrialized 48217 zip code – the most polluted zip code in #Michigan – and suffers from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She has lost 12 family members to environment-related diseases like lung and kidney cancer and is currently caring for her brother, who is suffering from stage 4 prostate cancer." #PlanetDetroit #Detroit #Dearborn #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalHealth #Pollution #Environment #Ecology #EricaHobbs https://planetdetroit.org/2024/10/southwest-detroit-environmental-injustice/

"Public health advocates say a package of bills moving through the state House could protect children and adults from lead exposure by building on recent laws mandating universal lead testing and requiring drinking water filters for all schools and childcare centers." #Detroit #Michigan #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalHealth #PlanetDetroit https://planetdetroit.org/2024/01/proposed-legislation-could-help-detect-lead-exposure-sooner-in-michigan-children/