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 chemical company LyondellBasell, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last January, has offered to pay the federal government $250 million for environmental cleanup at several sites including an 80 mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River that is contaminated with PCBs, Chris Killian reports in the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) contamination of the Kalamazoo River stretches from east of Kalamazoo to Lake Michigan and was listed as a Superfund site since 1990.
Last year Killian reported that cleanup work on the river had slowed because the U.S. arm of LyondellBasell Industries had filed for bankruptcy and objected to paying for environmental cleanup while in bankruptcy.
LyondellBasell — also known as Millennium Holdings LLC — had been financing the Kalamazoo River cleanup along with the paper company Georgia-Pacific Corp., the other party identified as responsible for the contamination.
In his story today Killian writes that the LyondellBasell’s offer of $250 million falls far short of what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is required.
The government had sought up to $5 billion from the company for cleanup work at sites where LyondellBasell has some responsibility, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court’s Southern District of New York. In court documents filed in December, the company said the Kalamazoo River project — its largest environmental cleanup liability — would cost up to $2.5 billion.
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