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Drinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInterviewLatest NewsMichiganNewsOne DetroitPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration Efforts“Poisonous Ponds: Tackling Toxic Coal Ash” featured on One Detroit program
-Just how big of a threat is coal ash to drinking water in Michigan? GLN Host Ward Detwiler interviews journalist Kari Lydersen to find out.
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-Fresh water is abundant in Canada; data on that water a lot less so.
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Chasing Fugitive Dust in Detroit
-The Motor City finds ‘political will’ for cleaner air.
The story starts in 2013, when residents living in Windsor, Ontario in Canada noticed big black piles of some kind of material along the Detroit shoreline south of downtown.
A truck arrives with more petcoke on Detroit’s waterfront in 2013. Photo courtesy Stephen Boyle, FuzzyTek Images
It turned out to be petroleum coke, or petcoke, a byproduct Canadian tar sands oil processed at the Marathon refinery in Southwest Detroit.
