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.
Biofuel is receiving lots of attention as a renewable energy source that could reduce use of greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels. But the climate bill proposed in the U.S. House does not account for the carbon cost of cutting down trees and could actually make climate change worse by encouraging deforestation, National Public Radio reports. [...]
The letter from 150 Michigan scientists urging immediate action to “take action against climate change and support measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” that was released publicly in a series of press conferences yesterday is now available online.
West Michigan Rising reports that a group of Michigan scientists with a research specialty in climate change and its effect on ecosystems will be releasing a public letter at several events around the state today urging the government to take action to arrest global warming.
Despite the world’s scientific community agreeing that climate change and global warming are occurring, there are still people who claim climate change is not happening. That will be the subject of a debate set for Wednesday, Feb. 6. Students for a Free Economy will host the debate in Room 105 of South Kedzie Hall at [...]
Increasing stress on natural resources and declining public funds for preservation made for a rough year for the environment. Water levels throughout the Great Lakes approached all-time lows, and people began to associate this with global climate change. Samples taken from the Saginaw River revealed the most concentrated dioxin contamination ever recorded, a whistle-blower lawsuit [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm took two steps Wednesday to help the environment: She created a council to develop a comprehensive climate action plan by the end of next year, and she ordered a 10 percent cut in state use of energy, also by the end of next year. Granholm created the Michigan Climate Action Council to [...]
Here’s a drive-by list of this week’s science and technology stories that may be of interest to Michigan Messenger readers: • Michigan State University with Henry Ford Health System, University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan Department of Community Health for Wayne County, Michigan named a National Children’s Study Center U.S. Department of Health and [...]
U.S. Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) is seeking comments on a draft proposal for a carbon tax. “The world’s best scientists agree we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 percent by 2050 in order to limit the effects of global warming,” said Dingell, who is chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. [...]
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