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.
The conservative group Americans for Prosperity is making headlines after it posted fake eviction notices on properties in the Delray neighborhood of Detroit.
Canada’s National Energy Board restricted the flow of oil through pipelines in that country in response to the Enbridge pipeline rupture that fouled at least 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River last summer.
A Canadian trucker was fined $50,000 this week for trying to take about four thousand pounds of live Asian carp into Canada via the Ambassador Bridge.
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) — who represents Michigan’s most polluted zip code — and representatives from several state environmental groups gathered near the spirit of Detroit statue last week to protest the construction of 2,000 mile long pipeline that will bring an additional 900,000 barrels a day of Canadian tar sands into the U.S. [...]
Lana Pollack, a former state senator and past president of the Michigan Environmental Council, has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as a member of the International Joint Commission, the agency that resolves disputes and enforces treaties along the 5,000 mile land and water boundary between the U.S. and Canada. The IJC was established [...]
Off shore oil and gas drilling has been banned in the U.S. waters of the Great Lakes since 2005, but the Canadians are operating hundreds of off shore gas wells in Lake Erie. In the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill some, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), are calling for more oversight [...]
The Bruce nuclear power complex which sits on the Canadian side of Lake Huron in Kincardine, Ontario is preparing to ship hundreds of tons of nuclear waste over the Great Lakes and through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Sweden for reprocessing, the Owen Sound Times reports. Bruce Power has signed a contract with the Studsvik [...]
Canada’s offer to finance the Michigan portion of the planned Detroit River International Crossing began as a suggestion by the Michigan Dept. of Transportation, Crain’s Detroit Businessreports. Last week Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt, told the Detroit News that he was distrustful of Canada‘s offer to pay $550 million for Michigan’s part of the bridge.
Canada has offered $550 million to cover the costs of construction on the Michigan side of a new public bridge that would link the countries. The Detroit River International Crossing would connect southwest Detroit’s Delray neighborhood with the Sandwich district in Windsor, and would directly link expressways on both sides of the border. Construction costs [...]
Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice told his country’s largest electricity producers this week that they will have to phase out coal plants within the next 10 to 15 years, CTV News reports. Canada plans to shut down the nation’s coal power plants in order to achieve a goal of 90 percent reliance on clean energy [...]
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