Pat Batcheller is a host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET, presenting local news, traffic and weather updates during Morning Edition. And now that ancient tradition is coming to Detroit City Hall. I don’t think she wants to move from southwest Detroit because this is the neighborhood she knows. So that was kind of an added factor in wanting to tell their story. With a grant from the Detroit Equity Action Lab, Santucci created “Mother” and shared it through Planet Detroit. I think that’s why she’s resorted to activism and advocacy on behalf of these issues instead of potentially moving. “Bridging Neighborhoods” is a good example of that. 120 shops are in the application process. The filmmaker, Lauren Santucci, began working on it after moving to the area and noticing her own shortness of breath. She was looking for stories on environmental justice at the time, and they deal with different social issues in Detroit. Health issues potentially caused by pollution is prevalent among the youth living in southwest Detroit. She had so much energy, so knowledgeable, and extremely passionate about this advocacy work. Simone suggested I connect with her because she was very involved at the time, had asthma herself, was raising grandchildren that had asthma. Besides being neighbors, the two women had something else in common: asthma. Many people who live there have asthma, which they attribute to heavy industry and trucks that roll down their streets daily. I heard a lot of anecdotes about people who were struggling with this and were really feeling the brunt of it. Guy Williams from Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice and Amy Schulz from the University of Michigan School of Public Health worked together to create a Public Health Action Plan to improve Detroit's air quality. Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, University of Michigan's School of Public Health, State to remove 450 chemicals from list of 1200 toxic chemicals requiring modeling, Detroit is first city to have a "chief storyteller", Interactive map helps medical marijuana patients find Detroit dispensaries. The AQI alert as it appears on some iPhones on Friday morning. Isn’t there some sort of help available to people who live in this area, especially near where the Gordie Howe International Bridge is supposed to go? Sagovac put Santucci in touch with Thomasenia Weston, who happened to be one of Santucci’s neighbors. I would encourage people to follow the work of the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition. Your film is part of an environmental justice reporting project. It would definitely best be answered by Thomasenia. It's not. Guy Williams, president and CEO of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, and Amy Schulz of the University of Michigan's School of Public Health joined Stateside to talk about what the data say, how poor air quality affects Detroiters, and what is being done about it. But that’s something I’m really interested in and it’s another aspect of how women are affected by pollution and air quality. And so because it’s more of a silent issue, and a more intimate issue, it would take a longer time to engage and dive deep into that story. Welcome to our new and improved comments, which are for subscribers only. She had raised three generations in that house that all dealt with asthma they attribute to the air quality. #Southwest Detroit. It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban. She set out to show how industrial pollution affects women, specifically mothers. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the city and the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition are also monitoring the air quality at different stations in Delray, to monitor how air pollution will change over time, so they can have a clear idea of how people can mitigate that. My asthma is not nearly as severe as what they’re dealing with. Pat Batcheller, 101.9, WDET: How did you meet Thomasenia Weston? A number of community and environmental justice groups are joining with the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “We clicked right away, and I was very up front about what my intentions were,” Santucci says. An unhealthy air quality alert in Detroit appears to have hit some iPhones on Friday morning. © Copyright 2020 by WDET and Wayne State University. The GAIA air quality monitoring stations are using high-tech laser particle sensors to measure in real-time PM2.5 pollution, which is one of the most harmful air pollutants. Southwest Detroit has dealt with air pollution for decades. This Material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in any form.
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