8 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 CENTRAL CAMPUS, FURNISHED rooms for students, shared kitch., laun dry., bath., in‑ ternet, rent from $700 and up. Call 734‑276‑0886. FOR RENT Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ‘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 Read more at michigandaily.com