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.
Professors from a dozen public universities in Michigan are calling on the governor and the Department of Natural Resources to consider ethical reasons to oppose plans for a nickel-sulfide mine on public land in the Upper Peninsula.
On Dec. 14, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved a permit for a Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company (a Rio Tinto subsidiary) nickel-mining operation in the Yellow Dog Plains outside Marquette. In a letter announcing the approval, the DEQ said that it could only consider technical matters in making the decision. But approval from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is also required.
The mine proposal has inspired widespread opposition on environmental grounds. Sulfide mines are a leading cause of water pollution, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, because they expose minerals that react with air and water and create acid mine drainage.
The group of 40 professors — mostly biologists, ecologists and philosophers — told the governor and the DNR that environmental costs, though uncertain, should not be downplayed in decision-making.
Continued -“When a mine is built on state land for a private, commercial use, it needs a permit, and those decisions have always been discretionary — not based on technical matters but on what is appropriate,” said John Vucetich, assistant professor of animal ecology at Michigan Technological University. “It is about how ought we to use our resources
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