The agreement also requires Cleveland-Cliffs to provide local residents with indoor air purifiers.
Jena Brooker
Jena Brooker is BridgeDetroit's environmental reporter, covering food and agriculture, pollution and climate change. She has held three fellowships: a ProPublica fellowship, where she led an investigative project on heavy industry in Detroit neighborhoods; a Data Fellowship at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, where she produced award-winning coverage of Detroit's automotive industry and environmental racism; and a Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship through CASW, AHCJ and SEJ. Her work has also earned the Michigan Press Association public service award three years in a row and recognition as Young Journalist of the Year in 2023. Before joining BridgeDetroit, she covered environmental issues across the Midwest as a Reporting Fellow for Grist.
Jena holds a bachelor's degree in environmental studies from the University of Michigan, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Grist, Next City, Chalkbeat and Planet Detroit.
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JB’s Bites: Detroit’s grill culture
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker teamed with WDET to uplift some of Detroit’s streetside grillers.
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Smoking meats on Detroit’s streets
A look at a few of Detroit’s informal pop-ups, and the man behind it all.
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Shell Shock’d Tacos opens for carry out in Cass Corridor
The Detroit-style taco spot will be open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays with a limited menu.
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JB’s Bites: Detroit’s Black-owned grocery store
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker has details on the opening of a long-awaited Black-owned grocery store in Detroit, weekend pop-ups and other food news.
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Detroit’s new Black-owned grocery store aims to improve food access
Long-awaited Neighborhood Grocery in Jefferson Chalmers on the city’s east side is providing vital food access.
Posted inEnvironment
Detroit officials push for right to ban single-use plastics
The city’s Green Task Force hopes to ultimately ban plastic bags. Restaurant industry reps say not so fast.
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JB’s Bites: Community Apple Pressing
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker has some advice on what you can do this fall with leftover apples.
Posted inEnvironment
Devastating floods leave Detroiters with toxic mold
The majority of Detroit homes that flood face an equally insidious threat in the aftermath: black mold.
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JB’s Bites: More money, more Black farms
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker writes on the latest infusion of funds to help Black farmers get more land.