Payne-Sturges calls for cumulative impact assessments in Michigan

Faculty Associate Devon Payne-Sturges and her colleague write in the Detroit Free Press to address how the Michigan Department of Environmental, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) do not measure existing pollution levels or consider rates of pollution-related diseases when they get a request from a company to operate in a community.

Payne-Sturges emphasized that cumulative measures keep the health of every Michigander a top priority. "To protect our health, we need EGLE to use the best science available, and consider the combined health effects of exposure to multiple pollutants and chemicals," she wrote.

Read the editorial at Detroit Free Press

"Michiganders need better protection from multiple polluters at a time", Detroit Free Press, Juan Jhong-Chung and Devon Payne-Sturges, May 30, 2024