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The future is going to be dropped off at your doorstep in 2024. Michigan Medicine is planning to begin using drone service for patients needing medications delivered. The air over Washtenaw County will be busier, but more fossil-fuel delivery vehicles will be taken off the road. What are the environmental implications? We'll find out together when Dana Habers, the Chief Operating Officer of Pharmacy Services and Chief Innovation Officer for University of Michigan Health, joins WEMU's David Fair for this week's "Issues of the Environment".

Bills dealing with future technology, like flying cars and delivery robots, received hearings Wednesday before the state Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Colin Jackson has more.

The use of aerial drones has temporarily been suspended at the University of Michigan.Drones are not permitted on or above campus property, while a policy…