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.
Attorney General Bill Schuette is trying to slow new rules on mercury even as research shows the toxin is present at dangerous levels in sport fish across the state.
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.”
Michigan electric companies have close ties to Appalachian coal companies with long record of environmental degradation and tragic lack of worker safety
New environmental regulations are likely to increase the costs of building and operating coal plants, CMS Energy told investors this month, possibly putting a proposed new coal-fired plant in the Bay City area on hold.
Over the last 25 years Michigan has made no progress in reducing the amount of mercury in fish because there has been no reduction in mercury fallout from the atmosphere, Capital News Service reports. Mercury is a powerful neurotoxin.
Financial trouble pushed state and national leaders to suggest abandoning longstanding environmental programs this year and some even blamed air and water quality regulations for Michigan’s economic problems.
The Department of Environmental Quality will host public hearings this week on a plans to build a new 930 megawatt coal-fired power plant at the Consumers Power Karn-Weadock facility at the mouth of the Saginaw River. Consumers Power, the largest electricity provider in Michigan, announced an 11 percent rate increase in March and some worry [...]
A slowing economy and warmer-than-average temperatures lowered demand for electricity in 2008 and resulted in a 3.1 percent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions nationwide, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). Coal-fired power plants are the largest emitters of CO2, a greenhouse gas, and gross electrical output was down by approximately [...]
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