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.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has named the small Lake Huron town of Alpena as one of the 19 communities where the department’s Biorefinery Assistance Program will fund pilot projects to develop new fuels from biomass.
American Process, an Atlanta based company, was awarded $17.9 million to develop a plant that will make ethanol and potassium acetate — a deicer — from wood waste generated by local hardboard company Decorative Panels International.
“This grant, in support of one of our Centers of Energy Excellence, will bring 160 jobs to the Alpena area and strengthen Michigan’s efforts to be a leader in the development of the next generation of advanced biofuels,” Governor Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
Mlive reports that the project has already received substantial financial support from the state.
The state in June approved a 28.6-acre site in the city as a tax-exempt Renewable Energy Renaissance Zone for 15 years effective Jan. 1, 2010. The Alpena Prototype Biorefinery was to be a partnership between American Process and San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp.
Its November 2008 designation as a Center of Energy Excellence gives the project $4 million.
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