The agency will no longer consider health costs and deaths prevented when reducing two major pollutants, but will account for costs to industry.
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Detroiters grapple with unknowns as lead, arsenic found at demo sites
The 59 contaminated lots whose addresses the city has revealed span across Detroit and involve demolitions conducted within the past two years.
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Sheffield taps new leaders to helm Detroit’s fight against poverty
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield plans to reshuffle several city departments focused on health and human services and has tapped Luke Shaefer, a well-known Michigan poverty and social policy scholar, to take the helm.
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Michigan leaders, legislators vow to improve nursing homes after Bridge report
Two Republican candidates for governor and at least one lawmaker promise changes following a two-day Bridge series laying out neglect, abuse and short staffing in Michigan nursing homes. Another lawmaker, a Democrat, says the key is in staff pay.
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Bridge Michigan investigation: Aging in Michigan comes with challenges, few solutions
Senior Health Reporter Robin Erb spent months digging into the support systems around the state that exist for elderly adults and found little hope.
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Detroit air quality declines due to winter weather patterns: What the forecast says
Michigan is in a warmer weather pattern that traps pollution at the surface, a meteorologist tells Planet Detroit.
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Michigan doctors criticize changes to US childhood vaccination schedule
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the number of shots it recommends for American kids. Michigan public health experts say the decision is ‘not based on science.’
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Rx Kids program expanding to help moms and babies in Detroit
Rx Kids offers $1,500 in cash assistance during mid-pregnancy and then $500 per month for up to a year of the baby’s life and already operates in 20 communities across Michigan.
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How one Florida program reduced preterm births – and how it could serve as a model for other communities
The program does early screening for risk factors of preterm birth using Florida’s Healthy Start prenatal risk screen at the pregnant person’s first prenatal visit.
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HIV knows no borders, and the Trump administration’s new strategy leaves Americans vulnerable – an HIV-prevention expert explains
In 2024, the U.S. supplied over 70% of donor government funding to end the HIV epidemic globally.