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.
DTE Energy has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the company to operate the Fermi 2 nuclear plant until 2045.
Fermi 2, located in Monroe County on Lake Erie, is a 1,140 megawatt plant that has the same GE Mark 1 design as the Fukushima, Japan power plant that melted down this spring following an earthquake and tsunami.
The plant’s current operating license expires in 2025.
Monroe nuclear activist Mike Keegan of Don’t Waste Michigan told the Toldeo Blade that his group will fight the relicensing of Fermi.
“It’s a sham. It’s a paper review,” Mr. Keegan said of the relicensing process, though he said he expects the nation to start taking “a hard look at the whole relicensing process” in response to Japan’s nuclear disaster.
Though it is supposed to provide oversight for nuclear power plants, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has repeatedly relaxed safety standards to allow aging power plants to continue to operate, a recent Associated Press investigation found.
The NRC has yet to deny a license extension to a U.S. nuclear plant.
“Fermi 2 has produced safe, clean, reliable power for the past 23 years, and we want to continue serving the needs of southeast Michigan with our energy,” Joe Plona, Fermi 2 site vice president, said in a news release.
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