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.
A Canadian trucker was fined $50,000 this week for trying to take about four thousand pounds of live Asian carp into Canada via the Ambassador Bridge.
With a 292 to 137 vote the U.S. House has rejected a proposal to remove funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to keep open the Chicago-area shipping locks.
This week the Obama Administration announced $47 million in new projects aimed at keeping invasive Asian carp from migrating into the Great Lakes. The 2011 carp action plan calls for new biological controls and increased e-DNA monitoring but does not include closing the locks in the Chicago waterway system.
For the second time, Michigan and other Great Lakes states have lost a lawsuit to force the government to close the locks between Lake Michigan and various rivers through the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal in order to prevent the invasive Asian carp from reaching the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. The Detroit Free Press reports. [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found new evidence that Asian carp are crossing the electric barrier that is supposed to keep the invasive fish from moving into Lake Michigan. The ACOE website shows that eDNA evidence of bighead and silver carp was found in the Des Plaines River close to Lake Michigan during [...]
Attorneys for all of the Great Lakes states other than Indiana and Illinois participated in oral argument in federal court on Monday in a case seeking to force the hand of the federal government to close the locks that separate the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan. The states argue that the risk [...]
Facing pressure from all of the states that rely on the Great Lakes for tourism and fishing over the need to prevent the invasive Asian carp from reaching the world’s largest freshwater system, President Obama today named John Goss as his Asian carp “czar” to advise the White House on the best way to proceed. [...]
Konrad Dabrowski, an Ohio State University’s aquaculturist with 15 years of experience studying Asian carp, told the Columbus Dispatch that the fish will not out compete native species in the Great Lakes because the lakes do not provide good breeding conditions. Dabrowski said that the conditions that allow carp to thrive in rivers don’t exist [...]
The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians have filed a motion to join Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio in a federal case that charges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is not doing enough to keep the invasive carp from migrating into the Great Lakes. Uppermichiganssource.com reports that the tribe wants to [...]
Michigan officials have been quick to file lawsuits to stop invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan so they should be ready to take action to get to the bottom of this week’s Enbridge oil spill, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley told reporters yesterday. The Chicago Tribune reports that Daley said the million gallon oil spill that [...]
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