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.
As the federal government’s cash for clunkers program gets started this week, newly revised fuel efficiency estimates by the EPA is causing problems for owners of some vehicles as they try to trade them in for new, more fuel efficient models. CNN Money reports:
Some car shoppers are finding that their trade-in vehicles, which qualified for a Cash for Clunkers rebate last week, don’t this week thanks to changes in the EPA’s fuel economy ratings…
Even though the program’s basic requirements have been known since it was created by Congress earlier this year, Cash for Clunkers didn’t become official until July 24. So as part of the official launch, the EPA conducted “quality assurance and quality control effort regarding fuel economy calculations on more than 30,000 vehicle model types spanning the past 25 years,” according to an e-mail sent by EPA spokesman Dale Kemery.
As a result, eligibility for roughly 100 vehicles was affected, Kemery wrote. However, roughly equal numbers became newly eligible and newly ineligible.
In order to qualify for the program, the vehicle being traded in must have a rating of 18 mpg or below. In the case of one shopper, his 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis, which had previously been rated at 18 mpg, was re-rated at 19 mpg, making the vehicle ineligible for the program.
The article reports that other vehicles to suddenly become ineligible for a rebate after changes in fuel economy ratings include the 1993 Camry V6 wagon, 1995 Saab 900S and 1988 Toyota 4Runner.
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