Detroit home demolitions may create new problem: lead-tainted dust The nation's largest home-demolition program, which has torn down more than 14,000 vacant houses across Detroit, may have ...

Potentially health-harming heavy metals were found at elevated levels everywhere Wayne State University researchers looked along Detroit roadways, a published study found. Max Denny studied Detroit ...

Detroit City Council approved changes to its fugitive dust ordinance to improve accountability and help ensure that operators comply with cleaner air regulations. Dozens of residents urged ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — On Wednesday, 7 Action News walked down Lawton Street in Detroit's Core City neighborhood with resident Eleanor Parnell. As we spoke, dust blew in ...

TRENTON, Mich. (AP) — Part of a shuttered power plant near Detroit was demolished Friday by explosives that turned the hulking structure into piles of rubble and kicked up a wall of dust and flames. A ...

Detroit’s ambitious demolition program, which has been razing thousands of unsightly and unsafe houses and other structures per year to fanfare and criticism, may be replacing one danger in ...

A thin layer of dust that is coating cars, lawns, windows and homes in one Detroit neighborhood is being questioned by residents as a health risk. Residents in southwest Detroit, near Oakwood ...

The Environmental Protection Agency paid a visit to southwest Detroit on Friday to investigate reports of lead-heavy dust falling in the area. The meeting was scheduled after residents reported that a ...

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Michigan environmental officials are looking into the effect that dust from petroleum coke piles is having along the Detroit River. Michigan U.S. Rep. Gary Peters said Thursday that ...

Detroit – The nation’s largest home-demolition program, which has torn down more than 14,000 vacant houses across Detroit, may have inadvertently created a new problem by spreading lead-contaminated ...