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 Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday announced that water testing being conducted in Morrow Lake has identified trace levels of hydrocarbons, which are naturally present in oil.
Mark Durno, EPA deputy onsite incident commander, says the chemicals are a “fingerprint” of petroleum, however, the testing has not identified any levels of benzene — a chemical officials have been concerned about because the chemical is toxic to life, and has been linked to blood cancers.
EPA officials say the spill has been contained just above the mouth of Morrow Lake. The entire “impact area” of the oil spill is approximately 30 miles in length.
Durno says EPA is not concerned about down river effects. And while the oil spill is contained above Morrow Lake, Kalamazoo and Allegan county officials have prepared locations down stream of the spill in the event of a “catastrophic” rain event. The counties have placed oil containment booms and skimmers at strategic locations along the river. In addition, officials in Allegan county have ordered the dam at Allegan Lake to reduce the water level by two feet.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and health officials will be flying the length of the Kalamazoo river Tuesday looking for sites of water withdrawal from the river. The MDA issued a ban on the use of water from the river last week in order to prevent additional contamination.
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