Your power bill, your water, your vote (w/ Planet Detroit)

On today's Daily Detroit, I'm joined by Planet Detroit founder Nina Ignaczak and managing editor Dustin Blitchok to talk about the environmental stories shaping our region and their nonpartisan voter guide.

We get into data centers and electricity costs, Metro Detroit's air quality, and drinking water concerns, including PFAS and lead service lines. We also talk about how decisions in Washington and Lansing connect to what we experience at home.

Then we dig into Planet Detroit's voter guide: candidate responses, environmental voting records, and campaign contributions from utilities. Nina shares what they heard when they asked readers for questions, including concerns about electricity costs and protecting our water.

Plus, if you're not familiar with the publication... how Planet Detroit got started, why local environmental reporting matters, and how they're taking some of that work beyond the screen with community walks.

Check out the voter guide: https://voterguide.planetdetroit.org

Read Planet Detroit: https://planetdetroit.org

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