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.
Automotive News reports that the Obama administration will announce a new proposal on auto emissions and fuel standards that they hope will resolve a court battle between several states and the Federal EPA that has gone on for years.
Automotive News reports that closing down or selling off Saturn, as GM will do at the end of this year, could have a significant effect on GM’s ability to meet government fuel efficiency standards and reduce its sales of environmentally-friendly products:
While the federal government, the states and the automotive industry fight over fuel economy standards for American cars, the government of Canada is calling for a single North American standard to be applied by all three governments that build cars for the North American market. Automotive News reports:
Sen. Carl Levin is expressing frustration with President Obama’s order to the EPA to reconsider California’s request to be allowed to set stricter mileage and emissions standards than required by the EPA under the Clean Air Act.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has filed a brief in California v. EPA, a lawsuit between the federal government and the government of California over whether that state can require stricter CAFE mileage standards than the EPA requires under the Clean Air Act. The brief argues that we need one federal standard for mileage rather [...]
Democrats in the U.S. Senate have dropped efforts to finance consumer credits and impose new taxes on the biggest oil companies, unable by one vote to overcome a Republican filibuster last week. Republicans had signaled they would force the Democrats to find 60 votes on the oil taxes. President Bush said that $13.5 billion in [...]
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