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.
Gov. Rick Snyder is expected today to sign into law a bill that will exempt certain farmers from fines for water pollution.
The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal charges over its 2010 Michigan pipeline rupture.
A closed down Kennecott metallic sulfide mine in northern Wisconsin is leaching potentially toxic metals into ground and surface waters in violation of the Clean Water Act, according to a citizens lawsuit filed in federal court last week.
After the Enbridge pipeline ruptured and dumped a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River last month, the oil was contained about 25 miles west of the rupture, long before reaching Lake Michigan. But with a spill that flowed directly into the Great Lakes a real possibility, a lack of transparency makes it difficult to determine how prepared we are for such an incident.
MARSHALL — Susan Hedman, Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 director, announced that the government agency has submitted a a request to Enbridge Energy Partners to produce documents related to the July oil spill in Calhoun county. Hedman said the request was made “pursuant to our authority in… the Clean Water Act.”
The Great Lakes Environmental Law Center has given Enbridge, owners of the pipeline that burst in Calhoun County, notice that it plans to sue the company for violating the federal Clean Water Act by releasing over a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River. Nick Schroeck, executive director of the Wayne State University based [...]
Reps. John Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Vern Ehlers (R-Grand Rapids), together with Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) have introduced a House bill that would restore Clean Water Act protections weakened by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and guidance from the Bush administration. America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act (H.R. 5088), introduced Wednesday, will legislatively override the effect [...]
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced on Wednesday that elevated levels of selenium below the tailings basin and waste rock piles of two mines operated by Cleveland Cliffs near Marquette in the Upper Peninsula could lead to reproductive failure in fish. Selenium is an element that can leach from rock that is exposed to [...]
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