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.
A dent in an oil pipeline that runs under the St. Clair River is not a safety concern, Enbridge officials said Wednesday, and the company has no schedule for repairing it.
“That dent is not an urgent matter of any kind,” Enbridge Vice President Stephen Wuori told reporters yesterday.
Wuori said that the company has reduced pressure in that part of the line as a safety precaution and that the section of pipeline that runs under the river is double walled.
Before the pipeline rupture that dumped an estimated 1 million gallons of Canadian crude in the Kalamazoo River system in Marshall last month, Enbridge was in negotiations with federal regulators over how to keep its southern Michigan pipeline running despite approximately 200 anomalies that had been detected.
Wuori said that the dent in the pipeline under the St. Clair River was not among the anomalies the company had been discussing with regulators and the pressure restrictions on that section of pipeline were self-imposed. He said that the dented underwater pipe should not affect restart plans.
Rep. Candice Miller (R-Harrison Township) told the Detroit Free Press that she is concerned that Enbridge and federal regulators seem to feel no urgency to fix the damaged underwater pipeline which could potentially impact the drinking water systems of the Metro Detroit area and beyond.
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