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.
SS Badger, the coal-fired steamship that ferries cars and people between Ludington and Manitowoc, Wis., during the summer, will be allowed to continue to dump an estimated 600 tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan each season through 2012 according to a recent decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Chicago Tribune reports:
For decades, the EPA did not regulate discharges from ships under the Clean Water act. But several states and environmental groups successfully sued to overturn that policy after ballast water was blamed for introducing invasive species such as zebra mussels and the round goby in the Great Lakes and other U.S. waterways.
EPA declined to exempt coal slurry from its new regulation, but extended its compliance deadline from this spring to 2012 after meeting with representatives of the car ferry company.
A recent report by the Environmental Integrity Project linked Michigan’s unlined land-based coal ash dumps to groundwater contamination and elevated cancer rates in nearby residents.
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