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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrong to cut monitoring for radiation with the nuclear disaster in Japan still unfolding, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said this week.
Last week EPA announced that it was returning to its regular program of quarterly sampling for radiation in precipitation, drinking water and milk because tests indicated that fallout from Japan was “well below any level of public health concern.”
PEER points out that EPA’s 50-year old network of air monitors has wide gaps, elevated levels of Iodine-131, Cesium-134, Cesium-137, and Strontium-90, are showing up in milk, and elevated levels of I-131 continue to be found in rainwater.
“With the Japanese nuclear situation still out of control and expected to continue that way for months, and with elevated radioactivity continuing to show up in the U.S., it is inexplicable that EPA would shut down its Fukushima radiation monitoring effort,” PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement.
Ruch added that radiation readings in seawater off the Japanese coast at depths of up to 100 feet are 1,000 times normal levels.
The group also warned that EPA is in the process of increasing the allowable levels or Protective Action Guides, for radioactive substances in soil and drinking water.
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