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 Michigan Public Service Commission has approved a DTE Energy plan to meet renewable energy goals by buying power from a wood-burning biomass plant in the Upper Peninsula and landfill gas from the Eagle Valley Landfill in Oakland County. According to DTE:
People who live near seven unlined coal ash dumps in Michigan have a 1-in-50 chance of getting cancer from their drinking water, according to a report released by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice, the Detroit News reports.
Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox announced on Monday that his office will intervene and try to prevent requests for rate increases by three utility companies from being passed by the Michigan Public Service Commission. The four requests by three companies — Detroit Edison, Consumers Energy and Michigan Consolidated Gas Company — are seeking to increase [...]
Before the Michigan House of Representatives could put pen to paper on the new energy bill that passed the House last Thursday (and that was heavily lobbied for by state utilities), The Monroe Evening News reported that Detroit Edison had already applied for a permit for a second possible nuclear plant in Monroe County along [...]
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