Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice


News/Events

 May 2008 Articles:

Solid Waste Call To Action

Call to Action on Incinerator for Friday, May 8                                                                                                                                                                                                
"Looking for green horizons" 5/28/08
Curt Guyette, Metro Times
http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12915
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         "Report: Global Warming to have dire effects on Great Lakes" 5/28/08
Deb Price, The Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805280429

"Metro Schools go green to save green" 5/27/08
Shawn D. Lewis, The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805270328

"Trash the Incinerator" 5/27/08
Barb Arrigo, Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880527057

"Other Voices: Recycling can give city jobs, reuse land" 5/5/08
Guy Williams, Crain's Detroit Business
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/SUB/805050338
Guy Williams is Board Chair of DWEJ

"Heating up" 5/21/08
News Hits Staff, Metro Times
http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12899

"Choke Screen" 5/21/08
Curt Guyette, Metro Times
http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12899


May 2006 Articles:

Press Release 5/3/05
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice Selects Five Sparrows for Web Site and Marketing

"Professor makes personal gift to advance environmental justice" 5/31/06
University of Michigan News Service
http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2006/May06/r053106

"Study Reveals a Disproportionately High Number of Minorities and Poor Live Near Toxic Waste Facilities" 5/19/06
Paul Mohai and Robin Saha, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment
http://www.snre.umich.edu/news/details.php?id=1306
 
"Protesters paint landfill plan as racist" 5/17/06
Venita Jenkins, Fayetteville (NC) Observer
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=233311

"Damu Smith, 54; Peace Activist Worked for Variety of Causes" 5/8/06
From the Washington Post
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-damusmith8may08,1,2658673.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

"Lawsuit: Bus fills kids with pollution
Environmental groups want posted warnings about diesel exhaust risk" 5/3/06

Douglas Fischer, Oakland Tribune
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3779119

"Lead Exposure Tied to ADHD Symptoms: Significant effect seen in children with particular gene types, study reports" 5/1/06
HealthDay News
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_32973.html


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