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. Geological Survey increased its estimate of the amount of natural gas that could be recovered through hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale formation but the new estimate is still far lower than another federal agency’s predictions.
The Hill reports:
The U.S. Geological Survey this week greatly increased its estimate of recoverable natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation that underlies major areas of Pennsylvania, New York and other states.
But while USGS boosted its mean estimate from 2 trillion cubic feet to 84 TCF — almost enough to meet four years of current U.S. demand — the figure is far lower than the federal Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) most recent projection.
EIA, the Energy Department’s statistical arm, estimates 400 TCF in its most recent annual forecast in April, but the new data could lead to a lower projection. On Thursday, a spokesman said EIA’s next forecast would fold the USGS numbers into EIA’s modeling.
“Incorporating the new USGS resource assessment will lower the assumptions about the technically recoverable natural gas resources in the Marcellus that will be used in the next Annual Energy Outlook,” spokesman Jonathan Cogan said in an email.
There were very large estimates of the recoverable natural gas in similar formations in Northern Michigan, but test wells have so far failed to produce as much gas as predicted.
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