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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tested Saginaw Bay-area municipal water supplies and found them free of toxic dioxin, but the soil in a residential area 22 miles downstream from Dow’s Midland complex has been recontaminated with dioxin and the plan for the long-term work of actually removing the contamination from the Saginaw River watershed is, after 30 years, still in its earliest stages.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is concerned that Michigan’s inability to maintain its wetland permitting program could have negative impact on water resources, create confusion, and compromise federal stimulus projects that require permits, EPA Acting Regional Administrator Bharat Mathur wrote in a Sept. 3 letter to Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality Director Stephen Chester. If [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to add three contaminated Michigan sites to the National Priorities or Superfund list. The sites in question are the Du-Well Hartford site in Van Buren County, a former plating company where solvents have leached in the soil and groundwater; the St. Clair Shores drain site [...]
The municipal water systems for Bay City, Saginaw and Midland are slated to be screened for dioxin next week as part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effort to address citizen concerns that ongoing navigational dredging in the Saginaw River threatens the region’s water supplies.
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