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 state Dept. of Environmental Quality announced today that it has approved an air permit for a 600-megawatt coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative in Rogers City.
Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has granted DTE Energy an air permit for its Monroe coal plant — a move environmentalists say gives the utility company a pass on federal pollution rules set to go into effect in the new year.
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.
A permit for a controversial petroleum coke-fired power plant planned for Rogers City has come under renewed scrutiny because of reports of a conflict of interest by the chairman of the Presque Isle County Board of Commissioners.
Nine Michigan counties exceed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s allowable levels for soot particles in the air, though pollution levels have been on the decline for two years. The EPA announced Tuesday that Michigan must develop a plan to reduce fine particulate pollution in seven southeastern Michigan counties and in Kent and Ottawa counties in [...]
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