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.
In what environmentalists are calling a major blow to the development of new coal power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board has overturned the permit for a coal plant in Utah because the agency did not require that the company take steps to limit carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the plant.
Coal power plants are the biggest emitters of the greenhouse gas CO2. Last year the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that CO2 is an air pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act, which sets standards for regulating air pollutants.
The successful appeal, brought by the Sierra Club, argued that the EPA failed to comply with provisions of the Clean Air Act when it granted a permit for a 110-megawatt coal-fired power plant proposed by the Deseret Power Electric Cooperative. The plant was expected to release 3.37 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
Earlier this year, opponents of coal power in Michigan filed suit against the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for failing to consider CO2 emissions as part of the air permitting process. There are currently four coal-fired power plants in the planning stages in Michigan.
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