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 Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state of Michigan for denying an air permit for a coal-fired power plant the company planned to build in Rogers City.
Biomass burning facilities will not be exempt from greenhouse gas permitting rules when the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency begins regulating carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act next year. Greenwire reports that EPA announced yesterday that it lacked a sufficient basis to exempt carbon dioxide from biogenic sources but that it would explore the [...]
The Michigan Environmental Council has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to look into the states financially challenged air quality program which they say is leaving polluters unmonitored and putting residents’ health at risk.
Some of Michigan’s largest polluting corporations are receiving millions in tax breaks for installing environmental control equipment that is required under state and federal law. With the state facing an ongoing budget crisis, some say these tax breaks have become a costly and unnecessary entitlement program.
Consumers Energy and Wolverine Power have failed to demonstrate a need for the coal-fired power plants they propose to build in Bay City and Rogers City, the Michigan Public Service Commission said in a report issued Tuesday. Unless it retires some of its existing fleet of power plants, which is not an explicit part of it’s proposal, Consumers Energy won’t need any additional generating capacity until 2020 the Public Service Commission found.
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.
Alex Sagady, an environmental consultant who has served on a number of state committees on air quality, writes at Michigan Liberal that Gov. Granholm’s proposed budget does away with state inspections to enforce Clean Air Act requirements regarding the release of asbestos:
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 [...]
In what environmentalists are calling a major blow to the development of new coal power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board has overturned the permit for a coal plant in Utah because the agency did not require that the company take steps to limit carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the plant.
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