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Flint-area residents living near the Ajax asphalt plant are skeptical of air quality test results from Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.

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Led by the Bay Mills Indian Community, more than 60 tribal nations from Indian Country have weighed in on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s lawsuit to move the Line 5 oil pipeline from the the heart of the Great Lakes.

Peter Brimelow writes: The current issue of...

Ajax, community activists groups and the City of Flint are all appealing the final permit issued to the asphalt company to operate the asphalt plant in Genesee Township near a disadvantaged Flint community for different reasons.

Overview It is widely recognized that the environmental justice movement first gained traction in 1982 in a predominately African-American community in Warren County, North Carolina.  University of Michigan professors Bunyan Bryant (a graduate of EMU) and Paul Mohai were pioneers in the movement.  Bunyan Bryant—who in 1972 had become the first African American to join the SNRE faculty—attended a meeting at the Federation of Southern Cooperative in Sumter County.  Shortly after, he joined...