Detroit-Area Residents Demand Clean Air
Category: GREEN
For decades, the residents of River Rouge and surrounding communities have been living with severe air pollution from nearby coal plants, and together, they came out in force to pack a public hearing and call on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to put a plan in place that will finally clean up this pollution and correct a longstanding environmental injustice.
By Mary Anne Hitt, ContributorDirector, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, 2015-03-13