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.
Just months after ending an eight year long term as governor, Jennifer Granholm has joined the Dow Chemical board of directors.
State environmental groups are calling on the EPA to respond to a Dow-Chemical funded mailer that downplays the risk of living amidst dioxin contamination.
People living on the dioxin contaminated area should not worry about absorbing the cancer-causing chemical from their surroundings, a Dow Chemical-funded report said last week.
Midland-based Dow Chemical will work with The Nature Conservancy on ways to make its manufacturing sites more environmentally sustainable as part of a five-year, $10 million collaboration, the company announced Monday.
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to reduce dioxin exposure for people who live downstream from Dow Chemical by spreading gravel on contaminated yards and building raised garden beds is being called “insulting” by some residents.
In May 2009 newly appointed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson called Dow Chemical’s contamination of the Saginaw River watershed a threat to public health and promised to kick start the agency’s long-delayed efforts to regulate dioxin. The agency has now missed the deadlines it set for action.
Residents along the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawassee River downstream from Midland say they wish that Dow Chemical would follow the example of Enbridge and buy their homes so that they can move to less contaminated areas. Enbridge, the company whose oil pipeline spilled a million gallons of crude into the Kalamazoo River last week, has announced that [...]
Dow Chemical will conduct a test this month to determine whether it would be possible to fuel its Midland operations with energy recovered from burning plastic. Dow is one of the world’s biggest plastic manufacturers with plastics-related business making up about 40 percent of the company’s $46.6 billion in sales last year, Frank Esposito of [...]
A federal study of a potent toxin that has contaminated Michigan’s largest watershed may not be done by the end of the year as promised. The director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Assessment, Peter Preuss, has reportedly warned that EPA is “really unlikely” to meet the December 2010 deadline set [...]
A draft of the long-awaited EPA update of its findings on the dangers of dioxin contamination finds that the chemical is more of a health risk than previously believed even at far lower levels of exposure.
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