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.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the State Department’s review of a massive and controversial oil pipeline slated to stretch from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. The move comes as Upton has been touting his conservative credentials in an effort to win the chairmanship of the House Energy and [...]
Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operations. As a result, the EPA announced Tuesday that it will force the company to comply with its request. In September, the EPA sent voluntary information requests to nine hydraulic fracturing [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency is years behind in determining the health the risks associated with exposure to hundreds of toxic chemicals, according to a new report from the Center for Progressive Reform. Despite an effort by the Obama administration to streamline the process for risk assessments under the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), which [...]
The New York Times ran a great story Sunday on the elephant in the room when it comes to renewable energy: cost.
Staff for Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who is positioning himself to become chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent reporters a Nov. 1 column on Thursday written by the congressman that suggests he will investigate White House climate and energy policy coordinator Carol Browner. The Nov. 1 Human Events column got little notice [...]
The Obama administration announced first-of-their-kind national standards Monday to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and increase the fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks and buses. The rules start with model year 2014 heavy-duty trucks and buses and require up to a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 vehicles. The specific emissions reduction requirements [...]
China currently controls 97 percent of the world’s rare earth production. The Mountain Pass Mine could change that — if it can overcome serious environmental concerns.
A number of lawmakers are up in arms this week over vague comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which is slated to run from Alberta, Canada, to Texas.
The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of the nation’s pipeline system released for public comment earlier this week a proposal to overhaul pipeline safety. The proposal, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, lays out a number of potential issues the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, or PHMSA, may address in final regulations. [...]
The United States has reached an agreement with the Motors Liquidation Co — the part of General Motors that split off during bankruptcy and holds the company’s unwanted assets — to establish a trust to clean up 89 sites (many of which contain hazardous materials) that were abandoned when the auto company declared bankruptcy.
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