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.
On Friday, President Barack Obama spoke to a gathering of stakeholders to announce his plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase fuel efficiency standards and reduce dependence on foreign oil.
According to White House officials, President Barack Obama will announce new fuel efficiency standards for 2017-2025 model vehicles.
For the first time in a long time, it appears that the state of California and the federal government are working together on establishing a common set of auto emissions standards to reduce the output of greenhouse gases from cars.
The Obama administration announced first-of-their-kind national standards Monday to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and increase the fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks and buses. The rules start with model year 2014 heavy-duty trucks and buses and require up to a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 vehicles. The specific emissions reduction requirements [...]
The Obama administration announced stringent new fuel standards on Thursday for cars sold in the United States. The new standards will require the full fleets for each company to average 34.1 mpg by 2016. Ordinarily, the auto companies are complaining about such regulations; this time, they seem to be in favor of them, the Detroit [...]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday outlined a new set of proposed rules for automobile fuel efficiency and emissions. The new rules follow an announcement in May that the administration had reached a deal with automakers and state governments to create a unified national standard. “This action will give our auto companies some long-overdue [...]
In order to meet the challenge of raising the average fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet more than 10 mpg by 2016, Ford announced a plan to implement more electric and hybrid vehicles and smaller but more powerful gasoline engines into most of its models over the next few years. The rise in fuel efficiency [...]
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute put out a new study on Monday morning that concluded that the government’s push to make the Big Three automakers build more fuel-efficient cars will increase the profits of the American automotive industry and put the current crisis to rest. The report concludes:
WASHINGTON — Even as some House Democrats moved closer last week to installing first-of-a-kind limits on the carbon emissions blamed for global warming, others are in a full-court press to kill a separate White House effort to curb those same greenhouse gasses.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s move today to install strict new fuel efficiency and emission standards for the nation’s vehicles has left some Michigan Democrats in a bind. On one hand, they have a long history of protecting their famously regional industry from new regulations, including stricter fuel efficiency standards. On the other hand, they [...]
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