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.
President Obama has named Susan Hedman, the top environment adviser for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, to serve as the top administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Midwest office, known as Region 5.
“Environmental advocates are sure to cheer this appointment,” wrote Dave Scriven-Young, an attorney at Peckar & Abramson in Chicago and author of the Illinois Environmental Law Blog.
“Her appointment is great news for all of us who love the Great Lakes, who want to protect our children from pollution, and who are ready to create good jobs in a new, clean energy economy,“ blogged Jack Darin, director of the Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter. “I know she will always put the people’s interest in a healthy environment first.”
Susan has been a strong advocate for cleaner air and water during her public service as Environmental Counsel and Senior Assistant Attorney General to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. She has been at the center of the landmark clean energy policy changes made in Illinois in recent years that have created thousands of good paying jobs across our state, and will create thousands more in the years to come.
According to an EPA release, Hedman has a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School as well as a doctorate from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in Madison, Wisconsin. Hedman has taught environmental policy courses and Northland College, served as research director for the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland, and worked as staff attorney for the advocacy group the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
Since 2005, she has served as Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s Environmental Counsel and Senior Assistant Attorney General, playing a role as chief negotiator for litigation and legislation relating to environmental protection, energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon capture technology and associated consumer issues.
One of the top issues facing the region is the cleanup of dioxin contamination caused by Dow Chemical in the Saginaw Bay watershed.
Former Region 5 administrator Mary Gade said she was forced from her office because of her efforts to hold Dow responsible for cleanup.
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