I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The new head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, met with the Great Lakes Coalition in Washington last week and said that the Obama administration planned to revisit the issue of ship ballast permit rules that were written by the Bush administration in December.
EPA in December released a general permit for cargo vessels entering the lakes or other U.S. waters from overseas. It includes rules for 26 types of discharges, such as ballast, oily bilge water and “gray water” from showers and sinks.
Breaking with the Bush administration, Jackson said the permit “doesn’t begin to address some of the concerns that are out there.”
“I don’t have an answer for you today but I want to you know that’s very much on my radar screen,” she said during a meeting of the Great Lakes Commission in Washington, D.C.
Inadequate safeguards on the discharge of ballast water from ships has caused enormous damage to the Great Lakes ecosystems. Dozens of invasive species have reached the lakes that way, causing damage in the many billions of dollars and resulting in the extinction of several native species.
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