Nina Misuraca Ignaczak
@ninaignaczak.bsky.social
Editor and founder of Planet Detroit. https://bsky.app/profile/planetdetroit.bsky.social
Michigan again seeks wildfire smoke exemption from EPA for ozone compliance, @planetdetroit.org reports. This is one of a number of air quality issues in SE Michigan. Props to @brianallnutt.bsky.social for tracking. @ninaignaczak.bsky.social planetdetroit.org/2026/03/mich...
Michigan again seeks wildfire smoke exemption from EPA for ozone compliance
State seeks EPA approval to exclude Canadian wildfire smoke from ozone monitoring data in Southeast Michigan following December court ruling.
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$10 million in water assistance funding advances in Michigan Senate: ‘Basic human need’ @planetdetroit.bsky.social planetdetroit.org/2026/04/wate...
$10 million in water assistance funding advances in Michigan Senate: 'Basic human need'
Senate budget doubles water aid to $10M, advocates push for $60M, permanent affordability legislation to help low-income Michigan residents.
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Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has notified the EPA that Wayne and Kalamazoo counties fail to meet the new air quality standards for fine particulate matter. This may result in stricter regulations and penalties.
Detroit faces air quality challenge under new PM 2.5 standard
High fine particulate matter levels in the air drive Wayne and Kalamazoo counties to be redesignated as nonattainment areas under the federal Clean Air Act.
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Planet Detroit is excited to share that our founder and editor, Nina Ignaczak, is part of the 2025 MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship. She'll cover how food waste and methane in Metro Detroit contribute to Michigan's climate issues and explore local solutions.
MIT Welcomes Spring 2025 Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellows
The MIT Climate Change Engagement Program is pleased to welcome its fourth cohort of MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellows. This fellowship supports freelance and staff journalists…
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Asked ChatGPT when the AI bubble will burst.
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...
Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
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