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.
In 2002, owners of land along the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawassee River were warned by the state to limit their childrens’ outdoor play because of the health risks associated with chemical contamination that has migrated downstream from Dow Chemical’s Midland facility.
Center Road passes over the Tittabawassee River near Saginaw (Michigan.gov photo)
“We are looking forward to getting a ruling from the court,” plaintiffs attorney Teresa Woody said in an interview.
Woody said that, if certified, the class could contain around 2,000 people who own property within the Saginaw County portion of the 100-year floodplain of the Tittabawassee River.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has identified Dow Chemical as the primary source of dioxin contamination in the Tittabawassee River and its floodplain.
The contamination has spread downstream from Dow’s Midland plant through the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers and into Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently assumed responsibility for negotiating cleanup of most of the contaminated zone, and has promised to treat the area like a Superfund site.
Dow has argued that the group should not be allowed to sue as a class because the level of contamination on individual properties varies.
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