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. Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) campaigned on cutting federal spending. Now some of his constituents are asking him to keep the U.S. Dept. of Energy from spending $58 million on a project to turn Upper Peninsula trees into ethanol.
An Upper Peninsula facility that would convert wood into ethanol for fuel will not open in 2012 as expected because it has failed to secure adequate financing, Xconomy.com reports. Research and development for the Kinross facility planned by Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Mascoma has been supported by tens of millions of dollars in state and federal [...]
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has named the small Lake Huron town of Alpena as one of the 19 communities where the department’s Biorefinery Assistance Program will fund pilot projects to develop new fuels from biomass. American Process, an Atlanta based company, was awarded $17.9 million to develop a plant that will make ethanol and [...]
Traverse City has dismantled its bayside coal plant, and its publicly owned electricity utility has committed itself to finding environmentally friendly ways of meeting the city’s power needs. But plans to buy land for a future biomass power plant were put on hold this week after citizens raised concerns about the potential human health and [...]
Biofuel is receiving lots of attention as a renewable energy source that could reduce use of greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels. But the climate bill proposed in the U.S. House does not account for the carbon cost of cutting down trees and could actually make climate change worse by encouraging deforestation, National Public Radio reports. [...]
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