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.
A new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility and Earthjustice finds that exposure to coal ash, the byproduct of coal-fired power, can cause cancer, lung disease, kidney disease, mental retardation and respiratory problems. The report also finds that pollutants from coal ash can leak into drinking water.
Monday in Arlington, VA, the Environmental Protection Agency held the first public hearing on its proposal to regulate coal ash, the byproduct of coal-fired power generation. Coal ash first became a part of the public discourse following a massive spill of the substance from a containment pond in Tennessee in 2008. A break in the [...]
A new report by a coalition of environmental groups identifies 39 sites in 21 states where coal ash — a potentially toxic byproduct of coal-fired power production — is being dumped. The groups say that the coal ash is “contaminating drinking water or surface water with arsenic and other heavy metals.” The sponsors of the [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding seven public hearings in August and September on its proposal to regulate the disposal of “coal ash,” a byproduct of coal-fired power production. Coal ash first became a part of the public discourse following a massive spill of the substance from a containment pond in Tennessee in 2008. A [...]
During the first quarter of 2010 Consumers Energy failed to conduct required environmental monitoring at two coal ash landfills associated with the company’s Karn/Weadock power plant outside Bay City, according to a Notice of Violation issued by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The violation, made public by the state in response to [...]
New regulations being considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concerning coal ash could have a significant impact on those companies that produce electric power for Michigan residents, especially DTE Energy and CMS Energy, which owns Consumers Energy.
The EPA released two proposals for new rules on the handling of coal ash this week, but environmental groups are not too happy with the result. A coalition that includes Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club and the Southern Environmental Law Center said in a press release that even [...]
The delayed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule on coal ash disposal must be released because groundwater contamination has already spread at more than 100 dumps across the country, the Environmental Integrity Project said this week. As evidence of the pressing need for EPA action the group pointed to the Consumers Energy Karn/Weadock complex near Bay [...]
The Board of CMS Energy has agreed to include a resolution about coal ash in its proxy statement and present it to the shareholders for a vote at its annual shareholders meeting in May, company spokesman Jeff Holyfield said today. The resolution, introduced by the California based environmental advocacy group As You Sow asks the [...]
A California-based environmental advocacy organization that owns stock in CMS/Consumers Energy is asking the company to explain how it is protecting itself and the public from the risks posed by 700,000 tons of coal ash that it produces each year.
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