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.
Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant near South Haven has been operating at about half power since an electrical problem caused a cooling tower to stop functioning on Saturday.
Palisades operators declared an emergency early Saturday afternoon after a breaker shutdown resulted in smoke and “the loss of cooling water tower pumps and fans and subsequently a loss of one cooling tower,“ according to a report filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
“Plant staff are working to determine what caused the problem, evaluate the damage and perform necessary repairs,“ NRC spokeswoman Viktoria Mytling said.
Mytling said that the plant may be required to shut down if it does not ensure that electrical transformers are functioning properly and restore one of the two sources of offsite power within 72 hours.
The Palisades plant has been cited by the NRC for ongoing problems involving human error.
When operating at full capacity the nearly 40 year old plant generates 798 megawatts of power and sells all of it to Consumers Energy.
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