Jeremy Orr

Aug 20, 2023 | planetdetroit.org | Jeremy Orr |Jonah Chester |Brian Allnutt

This piece is co-produced and co-published in BridgeDetroit and Planet Detroit. Sign up for the BridgeDetroit newsletter here. Environmental advocates are outraged by the lack of regulatory reform in resolving a civil rights complaint over pollution from an Ajax asphalt plant near Flint – and some fear it could signal a similar fate for a pollution case in Detroit.

Aug 17, 2023 | planetdetroit.org | Jeremy Orr |Michelle Martinez |Jacob Whiton |Rukiya Colvin

Last week, the City of Detroit announced that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department would resume water shutoffs –a controversial and punitive method of debt collection for households unable to afford their water bills. The decision to resume shutoffs comes after the expiration of a moratorium first required by the State of Michigan in 2020 during the COVID pandemic and voluntarily extended by the City.