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.
KALAMAZOO — A day after officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discussed the next phase of work to remove soil and sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the Kalamazoo River near the city of Plainwell, the agency made the project official on Tuesday.
Work will begin in August and be completed in late 2010 on a project to remove 12,000 cubic yards of PCB-laden material near a water diversion dam about 3.5 miles upstream from a recently completed, two-year PCB removal project, according to a statement from the EPA.
EPA officials were less than specific on the details of the project yesterday, waiting to officially announce the project after the administrative order on consent was signed by Georgia-Pacific Corp., which will pay for the work, which will cost the company $10 million.
About 90 percent of the PCBs in the area will be removed, the statement says. Waste with PCB concentrations at 50 parts per million or more will be sent to a chemical waste landfill. Waste with levels below 50 ppm will be sent to commercial landfills.
Around 80 miles of the river – from Morrow Dam just east of the city of Kalamazoo to Saugatuck on Lake Michigan – was declared a Superfund site in 1990. PCBs are of concern because they concentrate in the food chain resulting in health hazards to people, fish and wildlife. Congress banned the manufacture of PCBs in 1976 and PCBs still in use are strictly regulated.
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