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.
Enbridge Energy Partners LLC has increased by 3 percent its estimate of how much oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River after a pipeline ruptured in Marshall in July.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports:
The company announced on Tuesday that 20,082 barrels — or 843,444 gallons — of crude oil spilled from a 30-inch pipeline on July 26, a 3 percent increase over the original estimate of 19,500 barrels, or 819,000 gallons.
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“We’ve always said we were providing an estimate,” he said. “From day one it’s been an estimate.”
About 18,245 barrels, or 766,290 gallons of crude oil, has been recovered by Enbridge, the company said in a statement. That total does not include additional oil recovered during the clean up of river and creek banks.
Health officials in Calhoun County have asked residents to avoid all contact with the Kalamazoo River, which is still undergoing cleanup.
A Michigan Department of Community Health study released this month found that hundreds of people who live along the river developed health problems as a consequence of the spill.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that about one million gallons of oil was released into the Kalamazoo River system.
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