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.
Officials in Wisconsin say that a bluff at a local coal-fired power plant collapsed Monday, sending a cascade of soil, coal ash and vehicles into Lake Michigan.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on the contamination.
“Based on our land use records it is probable that some of the material that washed into the lake is coal ash,” We Energies spokesman Barry McNulty said. “We believe that was something that was used to fill the ravine area in that site during the 1950s. That’s a practice that was discontinued several decades ago.”
Coal ash is a toxic residue left over from burning coal to generate power.
The environmental clean up company Clean Harbors has been called in, and an oil sheen has appeared on the water surface. Officals say 1,500 feet of containment boom has been dispatched in the area to contain the oil sheen.
Officials are unsure why or how the bluff collapsed.
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