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.
MARSHALL — Susan Hedman, Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 director, announced that the government agency has submitted a a request to Enbridge Energy Partners to produce documents related to the July oil spill in Calhoun county.
Hedman said the request was made “pursuant to our authority in… the Clean Water Act.”
The request includes documents leading up to the spill, the response and activities to prevent such a spill from happening. On Sunday, Hedman announced for the first time that it was also conducting an investigation. The request for documents would be part of the investigation.
“One relevant issue is whether the company was negligent,” said Hedman as to why the agency was seeking the documents.
Sometime over the weekend of July 24, Enbridge’s Lakehead pipeline 6B burst, dumping an estimated one million gallons of oil into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
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