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.
Aides for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Jim Inhofe (R-OK) held a private meeting with members of the energy industry this week in preparation for a push to block U.S. Environmental Protection Agency climate rules that went into effect this month.
POLITICO reports:
“The feedback we got was ‘hey, great, go for it guys,’” one Republican aide told POLITICO. “And we pretty strongly told them we do need your help to get this done. And when we walked away from the meeting the feeling was we got that.”
The roster of those attending the invitation-only gathering is being kept under lock and key, though it is believed to include the American Petroleum Institute, National Mining Association, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and others.
New EPA rules, effective this month, require industrial facilities to report their CO2 emissions and air permits for industry must now involve consideration of ways to control CO2 emission.
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backgrounder on the priorities of the House Energy and Commerce Committee — obtained by the Hill this week — shows that rolling back the climate rules is seen as a critical element in in a campaign to block Obama administration environmental initiatives.
The stakes could not be higher; if the Obama administration succeeds in imposing unaffordable and unworkable permitting and other rules through EPA. It will severely impede the domestic manufacturing and industrial growth that is necessary for this nation to create jobs and emerge strongly from a devastating recession.
In addition to blocking the new climate rules, Upton’s committee has indicated that it would like to limit regulation of coal ash waste from power plants, speed the permitting process for new nuclear power plants and assure that EPA does not use the Safe Drinking Water Act to limit hydrofracking.
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