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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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