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.
Republican leaders from three key Congressional committees have released a bill they hope will stimulate conversation on “the most effective approach to stop EPA’s cap and trade agenda.”
In a joint statement yesterday Reps. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, and Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said that the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 will block EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions out of concern about climate change.
At the beginning of this year EPA began requiring large emitters of CO2 to report and consider ways to reduce their emissions. Pressure from industry and from Congress has already caused EPA to grant some large exemptions from the new rule. In January the agency reversed an earlier position and granted biomass-based power generation a three year exemption from greenhouse gas reporting rules.
The Republican lawmakers called EPA’s rules “all cost with no benefit” and warned that they would undermine the competitiveness of America’s manufacturers.
Yesterday in a call with reporters Natural Resources Defense Council Climate Campaign Director, Pete Altman said that the new EPA regulations would actually stimulate job creation.
“People would be put to work creating and installing measures to reduce pollution,” he said. “We export billions of dollars a year in pollution control technology. Millions are employed in the pollution control sector.”
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