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.
GM’s bankruptcy created confusion over who would pay for cleanup at 90 contaminated sites around the country, including 47 here in Michigan. Yesterday the White House announced that it would address this problem by creating an $800 million trust fund to be used for environmental cleanup and demolition at the sites. Speaking from a conference [...]
Communities across the state have been awarded a total of $10.7 million to be used to assess and clean up sites that are contaminated with hazardous substances and petroleum, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office announced today. Michigan is in desperate of funds to address polluted sites. Money allocated for environmental cleanup by a [...]
It is unclear who will pick up the tab for cleaning up the properties that General Motors helped to pollute but did not own when it went into bankruptcy last year. An unusual $1.7 billion loan from the U.S. and Canadian governments will cover some of the costs of dealing with contamination on 120 properties [...]
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