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.
Traverse City’s municipally owned utility company has hired a firm to study the potential health impacts of a proposed $30 million wood-fired power plant.
“We’ve been hearing from a lot of other people, what they think the public health aspects would be,” [Karen Feahrs of Traverse City Light and Power told Interlochen Public Radio,]“And we thought it was important to find someone objective. We want to make sure the correct facts get out.”
Light and Power is paying $22,000 for a preliminary environmental health study. It’s being done by Mac Tec, a nationwide engineering and consulting company with a Traverse City office.
According to emission statistics published by the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment the recently permitted Mancelona Renewable Resources wood-fired power plant would be, by some measures, more polluting than the coal plant proposed (and later put on hold) by Consumers Energy.
The proposed Mancelona plant would emit more particulate matter and greater amounts of NOX and VOC, two pollutants that react with sunshine and heat to form smog.
A group of Traverse City area physicians have asked local officials to table plans for a biomass plant until the potential health impacts have been investigated.
Tonight at the Traverse Area District Library the group Michigan Citizens for Energy, the Economy and Environment (MCE3) is sponsoring a presentation by Dr. Bill Sammons, a pediatrician who has warned that particulate matter from biomass power plants is an air pollutant associated with asthma, heart disease, and cancer.
Opponents of TCLP’s plan to burn wood for power are circulating a petition to amend the city charter so that residents would have the right to vote on whether the plant should be built.
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