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.
A new study sponsored by environmental groups concludes that a new coal plant proposed by Consumers Energy to be built at the company’s Karn Weadock complex will increase the cost of electricity for consumers. The Jackson Citizen-Patriot reports:
The report, released last week, was prepared by TR Rose Associates for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club. Those same two groups filed a lawsuit last month against the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment which issued the utility an air permit for the plant.
The Jackson-based utility wants to construct an 830-megawatt coal plant, and hopes to have it up and running by 2017. Consumers has estimated the cost to be at more than $2 billion.
The groups contend the new plant will cost $3.5 billion — a number they culled from a filing Consumers made with the Michigan Public Service Commission in January.
The study says this will raise the cost of power for customers by an average of $33 per year. Consumers Energy says the report is based on hypothetical data.
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