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Thursday, August 8, 2019
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

By Roland Huget
©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
08/08/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

08/08/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019

ACROSS
1 Shelves for 
cooking
6 Image problem, 
briefly
11 Navy letters
14 Muscat native
15 Catherine of 
“Best in Show”
16 Water source
17 Annual e-tail sale 
event
19 Good Grips 
gadget brand
20 Distrustful
21 Any of six classic 
Clue cards
23 “I kissed thee 
__ I killed thee”: 
“Othello”
25 Expensive gift
28 Folded snack
30 Put away
31 Shock, in a way
32 Sliced very thin
35 Substantial
38 Old West 
wanted poster 
figure
41 Soprano Fleming
42 Log on to
45 Barely go 
(through)
48 Like a favored 
project
50 Govt. workplace 
watchdog
51 Apollo craft
56 “The 
Fountainhead” 
author Rand
57 Build up
58 Raptor’s grabber
60 E’en if
61 Ideal deck-
shuffling goal ... 
and a hint to a 
hidden word, and 
how it appears, 
in the four other 
longest answers
66 Call someone by 
the wrong name, 
e.g.
67 Outrage
68 Small change in a 
small bank
69 Catch
70 City on the 
Rhone
71 Ham it up

DOWN
1 Big bird of myth
2 Adams of HBO’s 
“Sharp Objects”
3 Iconic San 
Francisco 
transport
4 Tot’s perch
5 Fathered
6 “Take that!”
7 “Kung Fu” actor 
Philip
8 Pops
9 Decapod on a 
menu
10 Like starfish
11 Ideal place
12 Battle of Hastings 
combatants
13 Dish cleaner
18 Orthopedist’s pic
22 Like the Empire 
State Building
23 Presumed UFO 
crew
24 Cheering word
26 Transgression
27 2016 Tony 
winner Leslie 
__ Jr.
29 Like a bogey
33 Romano cheese 
source

34 Singer 
Fogelberg
36 Mauna __
37 Fortune rival
39 Seized wheels
40 Ambiguous 
response
43 Short
44 Japanese title of 
respect
45 Roofing pieces
46 Trick-taking card 
game

47 Recital bonus
49 Private teachers
52 Like much of 
Idaho
53 Nasty type
54 Hightail it
55 Hitch on the fly
59 Utah city on I-15
62 Private aid prog.
63 Spot for a 
recliner
64 Tolkien creature
65 Manhattan liquor

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‘U’ study finds Flint an injust census district

School for Environment and Sustainability names most environmentally harmful areas in the country

A study published last month by 
the University of Michigan School 
for Environment and Sustainability 
reported Detroit, Grand Rapids, 

Flint, 
Saginaw, 
Lansing 
and 
Kalamazoo as some of the most 
environmentally unjust areas in the 
country.
University alum Laura Grier, 
Delia Mayor and Brett Zeuner 
co-authored the study with their 
faculty advisor, SEAS professor 

Paul Mohai. The group wrote in an 
email to The Daily the study is the 
first comprehensive quantitative 
and 
qualitative 
assessment 
of 
environmental justice in Michigan.
The 
researchers 
proved 
environmental injustice exists in 
the state of Michigan and an online 

environmental justice screening 
tool is feasible and desired. They 
also found a screening tool must be 
accompanied by strong state-level 
policy that supports communities 
burdened by high risk of exposure 
to environmental hazards.
Zeuner mentioned states like 
California use an environmental 
justice screening tool to leverage 
funding 
to 
communities 
most 
impacted by environmental justice 
issues. Grier added their study 
provides the state of Michigan 
with 
concrete, 
comprehensive 
and 
practical 
information 
about possible ways to address 
environmental 
injustices. 
She 
wrote she hopes Michigan adopts a 
similar screening tool.
“We also hope it encourages the 
Environmental Protection Agency 
and other national environmental 
leaders 
to 
consider 
cumulative 
impacts when making environmental 
decisions instead of one pollutant 
or facility at a time,” Grier wrote. 
“Specifically in Michigan, we hope 
this study encourages the State 
to adopt a screening tool, consult 
with 
impacted 
communities 
in 
permitting and policy decisions and 
consider cumulative environmental 
impacts.”
Mayor added if Michigan adopts 
an environmental justice screening 
tool, funding could be prioritized 
better and future environmental 
injustices could be avoided.
“We hope to see is that this 
information could be used by 
decision-makers to both prevent 
further environmental exposures 

and to prioritize allocation of 
funding to correct the already 
experienced 
impacts,” 
Mayor 
wrote.
The 
group 
partnered 
with 
the 
Michigan 
Environmental 
Justice Coalition to interview 30 
environmental justice leaders. They 
also used social and environmental 
data from the EPA, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development 
and 
Census 
Bureau 
to 
rank 
Michigan’s census districts.
According to the researchers, 
the Flint water crisis was a result of 
environmental injustice. The water 
crisis began in April 2014 after the 
drinking water source for the city 
of Flint was changed from Lake 
Huron and the Detroit River to the 
Flint River to save money.
Several scientists including Mona 
Hanna-Attisha and Marc Edwards 
have denounced drinking water 
quality data collected under the 
Safe Drinking Water Act Lead and 
Copper Rule by the EPA during the 
Flint water crisis. Zeuner wrote 
the group didn’t use that data 
and instead used a lead exposure 
indicator from the EPA, which is the 
percentage of homes within a census 
district that were built before 1960. 
The researchers used the indicator 
to represent a risk of exposure from 
lead-based paint and lead pipes.
The research group quantified 
environmental 
injustice 
on 
a 
map and based injustice on 11 
environmental indicators and six 
demographic indicators.

MICHAL RUPRECHT
Daily Staff Reporter

ALEXANDRIA POMPEI/DAILY

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