toxic waste

$50 million dollars of funding to support a copper mine project has been cut from the new Michigan state budget. The mine has been incredibly controversial. It received support from economic developers and some local lawmakers, while other lawmakers as well as some environmental groups voiced concerns.

The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio. It's the ripple effect after a judge intervened in a different matter.

A judge has — at least temporarily — stopped the delivery of World War II-era radioactive soil from New York to a Detroit-area landfill.

Today, what role oversight plays in the reliability of the grid and how elected officials are responding to more frequent outages. Then, we checked in on a hazardous waste dump in Van Buren Township, and its connection to toxic waste from the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Plus, a look at a new comic centering the stories of Black queer icons.

State and local leaders are urging Governor Rick Snyder to veto two bills on how the state deals with some kinds of radioactive waste.One bill would…