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.
Consumers Energy, the main subsidiary of CMS Energy, announced this morning that it is delaying plans to build an 830 megawatt coal-fired power plant near Bay City due to market conditions. In a statement the company said that the plant, which was expected to go online in 2017, will be deferred indefinitely because of “reduced [...]
The Entergy corporation’s Palisades nuclear power plant, which sits along Lake Michigan five miles south of South Haven, will remain on the list of facilities that require extra supervision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after an annual safety inspection revealed ongoing problems with human error, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports. NRC spokeswoman Viktoria Mytling told the [...]
Shareholders of the Massey Energy Company are warning that safety oversight failures at the company have cost investors dearly and they are recommending that three directors who served on the board’s safety committee be removed during the company’s annual shareholders meeting next week. One of the members they are campaigning against is Richard Gabrys, who is also on the board of directors of Jackson, Michigan-based CMS 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 [...]
Michigan electric companies have close ties to Appalachian coal companies with long record of environmental degradation and tragic lack of worker safety
A new study sponsored by environmental groups concludes that a new coal plant proposed by Consumers Energy to be built at the company’s Karn Weadock complex will increase the cost of electricity for consumers. The Jackson Citizen-Patriot reports:
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club filed suit against the state of Michigan in Ingham County Circuit court this week, arguing that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment failed to do its duty when it issued an air permit for a new 830 megawatt coal-fired power plant proposed by Consumers Energy at its Karn/Weadock complex near Bay City.
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.
One week after three Detroit children died in a home with an illegal electricity connection, the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee has scheduled a hearing on legislation that would create new penalties for people who illegally hook up gas or electric service or tamper with meters. The proposed law states:
For years Consumers Energy collected surcharges that were supposed to fund the decommissioning of Big Rock nuclear power plant in Charlevoix, but instead of setting the money aside for this purpose the company kept the money as general revenue. On Monday the Michigan Public Service Commission declared this practice improper, and gave the power company [...]
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