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 dozen state environmental and energy groups are asking governor-elect Rick Snyder to maintain the Granholm administration’s policy on permits for coal plants.
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.
Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Jon Van Allsburg has ordered the state to reconsider its denial of an air permit for the expansion of the James DeYoung coal-fired power plant in Holland.
Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state for denying an air permit for a coal and petroleum coke plant planned for Rogers City. In a case that is scheduled to be heard in Missaukee Circuit Court next week the power company is asking the court to reverse the permit denial and overturn Governor Granholm’s Feb. [...]
Officials at Michigan State University have stated that it’s not economically feasible for the school to switch from coal power to natural gas. A new report from Deutsche Bank AG, however, predicts that continued low natural gas prices will lead many power companies to give up coal. The report anticipates a more than 50 percent [...]
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.
A new report by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit environmental group, finds that pollution from coal-fired power plants will result in the premature death of more than 13,000 people this year. The report, which is an update from similar studies conducted in 2000 and 2004, says that emissions from coal plants, like sulfur dioxide [...]
About a week ago the Holland Board of Public Works announced that it would sue the state of Michigan for taking so long to decide on an air permit for a planned coal plant expansion. Today the DNRE may have preempted that lawsuit by announcing that it is rejecting the request to build a new [...]
The Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state of Michigan for denying an air permit for a coal-fired power plant the company planned to build in Rogers City.
Increasingly, Michigan utilities are looking to replace coal fired power plants with natural gas, but new research commissioned by the American Public Power Association indicates that if the whole country tried to switch to natural gas the costs for new infrastructure could be enormous. The report also questioned whether environmental regulation of deep shale hydrofracking [...]
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