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.
Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation.
In a study that could cause the U.S. to rethink its designation of biomass as green energy, Australian scientists have found that living forests soak up far more carbon dioxide than previously thought.
The state Dept. of Environmental Quality announced today that it has approved an air permit for a 600-megawatt coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative in Rogers City.
People in tourism-dependent northern Michigan should have more opportunity to weigh in on Wolverine Power Cooperative’s plan to rely on area forests for part of the fuel for a power plant in Rogers City, a Traverse City-based group said this week.
In order to get just five percent of its energy from biomass the 600 megawatt power plant planned by Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City will burn 255,000 tons of freshly cut Northern Michigan trees each year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given biomass power generation a three year long exemption from new rules that require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy issues dominated the environment reporting here this year as Michigan struggled with the ecological costs of power generation and the proper regulation of the means of power generation.
Michigan failed to properly consider the environmental impact of an Upper Peninsula project that plans to turn 560,000 tons of pulpwood into ethanol each year, the Sierra Club stated in a lawsuit filed this week.
The Michigan Public Service Commission has approved a DTE Energy plan to meet renewable energy goals by buying power from a wood-burning biomass plant in the Upper Peninsula and landfill gas from the Eagle Valley Landfill in Oakland County. According to DTE:
Traverse City’s municipal utility has decided to step away from plans to build a wood-fired power plant as part of an effort to reach a goal of 30 percent renewable energy by 2020. Traverse City Light & Power executive director Ed Rice said that the TCLP board has decided to “curtail any detailed analysis” of [...]
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