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.
Sen. Carl Levin took a rather controversial stand for a politician from Michigan during a conference in Detroit on Wednesday, calling for government mandates to replace fuel efficiency standards in order to push the auto companies to be more innovative and aggressive in pushing electric and hybrid vehicles to market. Fox News reports:
At the Business of Plugging in Electric Vehicle Conference in Detroit on Wednesday, Levin said U.S. fuel standards “forces auto manufacturers to focus on incremental improvements rather than dramatic leaps forward. He called that approach “a row boat when what we need is a high-tech whitewater raft.”
Instead of setting fleet average targets, Levin said Washington should explore the possibility of requiring by 2025 that “certain classes of vehicles be made up of plug-in hybrids, all-electric vehicles, fuel-cell vehicles or other alternatives to oil.”
“I know the idea of such a mandate would be controversial,” he said. “But the incremental gains of our current approach are achieved at great cost, in terms of resources and policy struggles.”
“Our goal should be nothing short of making electric vehicles affordable and attractive to every American family,” he said.
Sounds like a great idea, but as long as we are producing electricity primarily by burning coal, more electric cars are not likely to do much to help the environment.
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