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.
On Monday the House Energy and Commerce committee will discuss a bill that would require the Obama administration to finalize its decision on whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1.
The action by Energy and Commerce is expected to create a new fight between environmentalists and committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton, Greenwire reports.
Greens have slammed Upton since 2011 began for pressing ahead with oil-centric projects such as Keystone XL while moving more slowly on pipeline safety despite a July rupture that sent an estimated 800,000 gallons of crude into a waterway running through his district (E&E Daily, Jan. 25).
“Chairman Upton needs to get his facts straight,” Kate Colarulli, associate director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Oil campaign, said of the committee’s new pipeline bill. “Less than one year ago, his constituents experienced the worst pipeline spill in Midwest history, spewing nearly one million gallons of dirty tar sands into the Kalamazoo River and endangering Lake Michigan. His push for the Keystone XL pipeline is reckless and irresponsible.”
The proposed 1,700 mile long pipeline would double the amount of Canadian crude imported to the U.S.
The northern portion of the Keystone line has had a dozen leaks during its first year of operation according to Friends of the Earth.
A copy of the draft bill is
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/Hearings/Energy/052311/NAMESA.pdf”>here
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