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.
Enbridge Inc., the company responsible for the largest oil spill in Midwest history in Calhoun County last year, says it may look to expand one of its pipelines that carries tar sands oil from Canada all the way to the Gulf Coast to compete with TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.
Enbridge Inc., the largest transporter of Canadian oil to the U.S., said Friday that it’s considering expanding its proposed Monarch oil pipeline with a segment to move crude from North Dakota’s Bakken formation and Canada’s oil sands to the Gulf Coast.
CEO Patrick Daniel said the proposed Monarch North line would use a combination of existing Enbridge infrastructure and new construction to carry as many as 300,000 barrels a day from Chicago to the oil storage hub in Cushing. It would offer shippers the ability to deliver oil to Minnesota, Chicago, Cushing and the Gulf Coast, Daniel said.
This proposal would, presumably, require approval by the U.S. State Department, which TransCanada is currently waiting on for the Keystone project.
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