State has long struggle reining in hazardous waste site in Detroit neighborhood.
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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Detroit’s Saffron De Twah wins Food Network’s Chopped
Omar Anani, a two-time nominee for the acclaimed James Beard Awards, was crowned ‘King of the North’ after winning an episode of Chopped. Next up, the All American Showdown.
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City crushes developer’s plan to crush concrete in Core City
Detroit’s Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously upheld a prior ruling that developer Murray Wikol cannot establish a concrete crushing operation at 4445 Lawton Street near residents and near farms.
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New partnership will bring improvements to 8 under resourced Detroit parks
The Gilbert Family Foundation and Green Living Science have teamed up to support community members activating their local parks.
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Detroit Health Department slow to warn residents about wildfire smoke
With 500 fires burning across Canada, more bad air quality days in metro Detroit are possible. Detroit’s Health Department has yet to communicate a long-term plan for protecting residents.
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Detroit’s cost for automotive growth: Generational displacement
Chrysler’s decades of expansion, pollution pose continued risks for resident health and displacement in east side community.
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Midtown’s BasBlue Cafe gets Louisiana makeover
Chef Ederique Goudia brings her Creole and Cajun inspired foods to the BasBlue Cafe this summer.
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Did hazardous waste facility’s unreported errors put Detroiters at risk?
US Ecology violated federal law for five years, and state officials only recently discovered the problems.
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Free techno festival this weekend in Detroit
Tec-Troit is a free two-day festival featuring local DJs held at the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation.
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Incinerator demo on track for Sunday despite some resident pushback
Detroit officials met with residents Wednesday to answer questions about personal safety, the demolition process, how pollution would be controlled, and efforts to inform residents.