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 state House has passed legislation to ban the manufacture, sale and distribution of products that contain DecaBDE, or decabromodiphenyl ether, a fire retardant that has been linked to cancer and developmental disabilities in children.
DecaBBE is used in televisions, computers, mattresses, cushions, drapes and carpets and is released into the environment when these products are made and used. The chemical is known to accumulate in breast milk.
The bill, sponsored by State Representative Deb Kennedy (D-Brownstown) would ban the chemical in Michigan as of Dec. 31, 2010. The legislation now goes to the Senate.
“No child should have to pay the price because the Legislature didn’t do its job to ban this hazardous chemical,” Kennedy said in a statement “The Senate needs to join us in our fight to protect our residents. We must do everything we can to reduce the toxic burden we’re passing on to our children and our Great Lakes. Michigan must act now and ban this toxin once and for all.”
Last month, under pressure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, several of the largest manufacturers of DecaBDE-containing products promised to phase out use of the chemical by 2013.
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