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.
Lyondell Chemical Co. will pay $103 million to clean up PCB contamination in the Kalamazoo River and at the Allied landfill site in Kalamazoo under a settlement proposal announced by the Department of Justice this week, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
Under the proposed $160 million settlement, $49.5 million would go toward cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the river and its watershed. Another $53.7 million would go toward cleanup or containment options of 1.5 million cubic yards of PCB-laden material in the Allied landfill, located between Cork Street and Alcott Avenue on the city’s south side. The Kalamazoo River Superfund site includes 80 miles of the river and the landfill.
The remaining $57 million under the settlement would go for cleanup of 21 other sites that Lyondell, or one of its 90 subsidiaries, has environmental cleanup liabilities for across the nation. The company filed for bankruptcy in January 2009.
Cleanup of the Kalamazoo River has been slowed by the bankruptcy of Lyondell.
The federal government initially sought up to $5 billion from the company to settle environmental claims.
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