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.
Levels of heavy metals have increased in water samples being conducted along the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek nearly a year after an oil pipeline ruptured in the area spewing an estimated one million gallons of oil into the waterways.
Western Michigan University professor Michael Barcelona is looking for Kalamazoo River area property owners that want to participate in a study of how last summer’s Enbridge oil spill may be affecting groundwater.
Almost a year after the worst oil spill in state history coated 37 miles of the Kalamazoo River watershed with tar sands crude, the company responsible for the mess still controls the river — and some residents would like to get a look at what’s going on.
A toxicologist with the Michigan Dept. of Community Health says that monitoring of fish contaminant levels near the Lake St. Clair Superfund site was delayed because of the state’s focus on oil contamination in the Kalamazoo River.
The Enbridge Lakehead Pipeline 6B which runs through Michigan was shut down May 29 when storm related power outages shut down the Marshall pumping station.
The Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily ceased clean-up operations of last year’s massive oil spill since last week because of storms and high flood levels on the Kalamazoo River.
Emmett Township Public Safety officials confirm that firefighters from the department have investigated 9-1-1 reports that there was a heavy odor of oil near the Ceresco dam.
As the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation takes up pipeline safety legislation today, watchdog groups say that the measure contains good elements to address recent pipeline disasters — such as the San Bruno, Calif., gas explosion and the Marshall, Mich., oil spill –but could still use some improvement.
Now that spring has sprung, Enbridge is beginning to ramp up cleanup efforts on the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek.
Calhoun county officials say they are prepared to continue a ban on contact with the Kalamazoo River indefinitely.
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