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.
Federal officials have announced a deal with Dow Chemical over several longstanding environmental problems associated with operations at the company’s Midland complex.
American Family Voices, a non-profit group that advocates for the environment and health care, has launched a TV ad campaign targeting Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) for his recent anti-EPA crusade.
The American Lung Association is speaking out strongly against a bill that would remove the EPA’s ability to regulate activities that produce greenhouse gases, including an amendment offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow that would eliminate that regulation for two years.
Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, seeks to reduce the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, a new EPA study concludes that the Act has saved millions of lives.
As the battle over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions mounts, a new report shows that CO2 emissions grew in 2010, and that a Michigan coal plant is one of the nation’s biggest sources.
The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases out of concern for climate change.
Most people, regardless of political affiliation, oppose Congressional efforts to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating pollution under the Clean Air Act, according to a new poll from ORC International.
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 Missaukee Circuit Court has granted Attorney General Mike Cox permission to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Wolverine Power Cooperative which claims that the state did not have the authority to deny an air permit for a coal plant planned for Rogers City.
Expecting to emerge from tomorrow’s election with control of the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate as well, the Republicans are planning to use their newfound power to attack the Obama administration’s environmental policies, particularly the EPA’s attempts to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant. The Lansing State Journal reports:
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