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.
In a recent Right Michigan interview about his candidacy for governor, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said that he’s concerned about the state’s regulatory environment. In much of Michigan, he said, the Department of Environmental Quality is “viewed as a hostile occupational army.”
Last year a Chinese-made EKCO brand cheese grater set off radiation alarms at a Flint scrap yard — it was emitting the equivalent of a chest X-ray every 36 hours. A new investigative piece published by the Scripps Howard News Service explores official responses to the discovery of the radioactive cheese grater and finds that [...]
The Department of Environmental Quality has warned Tittabawassee Township on the lack of signs warning of dioxin dangers at the park where this weekend’s fishing celebration will be held. Dow Chemical promised to pay for fish advisory signs but has refused to provide necessary funds. “I am not aware of anything further that we will be doing on this,” a company spokeswoman says.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans last week to use federal stimulus funding to accelerate a PCB contamination clean-up project in Massachusetts that involves shipping polluted sediments to Michigan for storage.
Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), the global mining corporation fighting to build a nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula near Marquette, is now reviewing its expansion plans in light of upheavals in global markets, according to a report published today on MetalBulletin.com.
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