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.
It was just yesterday that Secretary of Energy Steven Chu came to Michigan to announce $5.9 billion in federal loans to help Ford develop and build the environmentally friendly cars of the future, but already the automaker and their benefactors in Congress are looking to nearly double that amount.
Ford Motor Co. executives are hoping for billions of additional dollars in government technology loans if congressional efforts to double the amount of money are successful.
Ford, the only U.S. automaker operating without federal bailout money, applied for $11 billion in technology loans. All of Ford’s projects were approved by the Department of Energy, said Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president of sustainability, environment and safety engineering.
But the $5.9 billion awarded to the company today is “probably” all that Ford will receive out of the $25 billion pool currently available.
“If they raise the appropriations from the $25 billion to the $50 billion, we qualify — so we’ll see,” Cischke said.
The money already appropriated will help Ford more broadly use the EcoBoost engine, which, according to Ford’s website, “uses gasoline turbocharged direct-injection technology for up to 20 percent better fuel economy, 15 percent fewer CO2 emissions and superior driving performance versus larger displacement engines.”
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