The company seeks to assure the public the air is safe, despite more than 100 complaints to the state.
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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Duggan plans new urban agriculture director to support Detroit farmers
The position, to improve efforts to support city farm projects, is similar to others being created across the country.
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JB’s Bites: 22 new Detroit coffee shops
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker shares a few up and comers in the Detroit coffee space, pop-ups events you won’t want to miss and more.
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Eastsiders are fed up with Stellantis truck traffic. Street plan up for city approval might not help
A city authority will take another 60 days to consider a traffic plan eastsiders worry would increase trucks. They already see more than 450 trucks a day
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Group bike riding in Detroit: How it began and how to join
A recent history and a list of free, public group bike rides in Detroit
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Detroit’s Friday swim club on Belle Isle quickly growing
The Belle Isle Swim Club meets every Friday at 7 a.m. to swim, hang out, and drink free coffee.
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JB’s Bites: The Veggie Express and a collard cookoff
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker has the dish on a rickshaw delivering fresh produce to Detroiters, an inaugural collard green cookoff and more.
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Get ready for Detroit’s inaugural collard green cookoff
Five chefs will cook up 40 pounds of collards apiece to be judged on taste, texture, smell and creativity.
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Film on Indigenous food sovereignty screened in Detroit
‘Gather’ highlights Indigenous efforts to reclaim identity and heal trauma through food sovereignty.
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Solar-powered rickshaw delivering local produce to Detroiters
The Veggie Express means better access to fresh food in Detroit neighborhoods, and increased profit for farmers.