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.
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) is asking federal officials to protect Lake Michigan from coal ash pollution from the S.S. Badger car ferry which operates between Luddington, Michigan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Officials in Wisconsin say that a bluff at a local coal-fired power plant collapsed Monday, sending a cascade of soil, coal ash and vehicles into Lake Michigan.
Environmental group Earthjustice reports that Michigan is one of 18 states to have new coal ash containment sites classified as “significant hazards” by the EPA in recently released data. In a press release, the organization says:
A new report entitled from Earth Justice and the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment calls attention to inadequate state laws to protect against contamination from coal ash landfills and detention ponds. The report is entitled State of Failure: Thirty-seven coal ash regulatory programs that place our air, water and health in danger.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, on Wednesday passed a bill that would forbid the EPA from regulating the handling of coal ash, a toxic by-product of coal power generation. The vote was 35-12.
Rep. Fred Upton continues to use his tenure as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to attempt to strip the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate toxic substances that threaten the environment.
Local citizens have formed a group to support the continued operation of the coal-powered car ferry that travels between Ludington and Manitowic, Wisconsin and faces a 2012 Environmental Protection Agency deadline to stop dumping coal ash into Lake Michigan.
An investigation by City Pulse has found elevated levels of arsenic in run-off from a site where the Lansing Board of Water & Light is storing coal ash near Grand River. A sample taken from soil that had breached a broken silt fence at the facility after a heavy rain in Sept. showed arsenic at [...]
Students at Michigan State University want the state university to live up to its school color and Go Green. To do that, students argue, the T.B. Simon coal powered electric production facility on campus needs to go.
Environmental groups say that a state award given routinely to some of the most highly polluting companies in Michigan is an example of “greenwashing” — defined as “the deceptive use of green PR or green marketing in order to promote a misleading perception that a company’s policies or products (such as goods or services) are environmentally friendly.”
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