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.
Dow Chemical’s Midland plant has contaminated the Tittabawassee River floodplain with dioxin — one of the most toxic chemicals known — and property owners in the contaminated zone are seeking damages in a class action suit against the company.
A Court of Appeals panel upheld the property owners certification as a class in January 2008. Today the recently reformulated Michigan Supreme Court will hear Dow’s appeal of the cases class action status. Dow is arguing that the group should not be designated as a class because the individual properties have different levels of dioxin contamination.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have stated that Dow is responsible for the dioxin contamination along the Tittabawassee. A study by Illinois researchers last year found that women who live in the rivers contaminated floodplain have elevated levels of breast cancer.
“The ability to certify an environmental class as a remedy in the State of Michigan may be decided by this case,“ Michelle Hurd Riddick of the environmental group Lone Tree Council said in a statement.
The case was originally filed six years ago in Saginaw Circuit Court.
A map of the documented dioxin contamination along the Tittabawassee is viewable here.
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