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.
One of the lesser debated aspects of hydrofracking is what must be done with the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater produced by the procedure. Pennsylvania, where there is a huge boom in fracking, is sending that water to Ohio to be injected deep under ground.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Pennsylvania’s waste is becoming Ohio’s million-dollar treasure.
Gas drillers tapping into the Marcellus Shale are shipping more fracking waste to neighboring Ohio for disposal deep underground, putting it on pace to bank nearly $1 million in fees this year from out-of-state drillers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Tuesday.
The amount of wastewater Ohio accepted from out-of-state drillers jumped 25 percent in the first quarter, compared with the last quarter of 2010, likely in part because Pennsylvania officials this year increased pressure on drillers to keep fracking waste out of surface water, said Tom Tomastik of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Each fracking well uses about 3-6 million gallons of water, about one-fifth of which returns to the surface in highly toxic form. Deep injection wells are used to dispose of it in a way that hopefully avoids contaminating surface waters. Some of that water has also been sent to wastewater treatment plants, but more and more states are passing regulations that forbid that because those plants aren’t able to adequately clean the water and make it usable again.
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