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.
People who live near seven unlined coal ash dumps in Michigan have a 1-in-50 chance of getting cancer from their drinking water, according to a report released by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice, the Detroit News reports.
Two Detroit Edison sites in Monroe also do not have groundwater monitoring systems. Neither does a Consumers Energy facility in Monroe, though one of the two utility’s plants in Ottawa County does. Of the two stations owned by the city of Lansing that are on the list, only one has groundwater monitoring. The Wisconsin Electric Power Co.’s Marquette site does, too.
The full report, which is based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency risk assessment documents, is available on the website of the Environmental Integrity Project.
Detroit Edison’s Monroe coal plant has an unlined 400 acre surface impoundment (pond) with a capacity of 15 million cubic yards.
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