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 U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will not consider the case in which Michigan and four other states sought to block invasive carp by closing the canal that connects the Great Lakes basin to the Mississippi River system, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The states could pursue the issue in state or federal court in Illinois, according to Nick Schroeck, executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center in Detroit.
“The fight to protect Michigan now falls to President Obama and Congress,” said [Michigan Attorney General Mike] Cox in a statement. “While President Obama has turned a blind eye to the millions of Great Lakes residents who do not happen to live in his home state of Illinois, it is now up to him to save thousands of Michigan jobs and our environment.”
Henry Henderson directs of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Midwest Program which had filed an amicus brief with the Court on behalf of the Michigan case.
In a statement Henderson said he expects the case to be quickly moved to another venue.
“The Great Lakes states and provinces have justified concerns over the threat posed by Asian carp and the infrastructure that allows the fish’s advance on Lake Michigan. The Great Lakes Compact, due largely to language pushed through by the State of Illinois, had directed that these interstate conflicts be addressed in the Supreme Court. As a result, we will certainly see this action moved to another legal venue. And I would guess, quickly. In the meantime, NRDC and the other NGO groups will be working to help bring about a thoughtful permanent solution.”
The court’s decision is here.
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