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 recent study found that eating meat or vegetables grown in the dioxin-contaminated floodplains around Saginaw causes high dioxin levels in the blood, but few people in the area know that and neither Dow nor the government seems to be taking any steps to inform the public.
A Dow Chemical-funded study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan has found that consumption of food grown in the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawassee floodplain resulted in a toxic burden in the bodies of some local residents.
A coalition of labor groups said today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed guideline for dioxin cleanup at commercial and industrial sites is not strong enough to protect workers and others from cancer risks. Late last year EPA recommended that cleanup goals for commercial/industrial soil be changed from 5,000-20,000 ppt to 950 ppt.
Despite a history of ethically challenged research funded by corporations — and Dow Chemical specifically — the University of Michigan is refusing to release internal documents that could reveal problems with a study that downplays the dangers of dioxin.
In response to requests from the chemical industry the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period on new cleanup goals for dioxin. Critics worry that this extension may signal a softening of EPA’s commitment to addressing the dioxin problem.
Experts and local residents of the dioxin-laden Saginaw River watershed are displeased with a new agreement between the EPA and Dow that allows the chemical company to determine which areas are most in need of cleanup — even after that company has spent decades claiming that there is no need for cleanup at all.
The group that represents American chemical manufacturers wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to back off criticisms of a Dow Chemical-funded dioxin exposure study conducted by researchers at U-M’s school of public health.
As promised last summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection agency has announced new, more stringent rules for cleanup of dioxin, a highly toxic byproduct of the chemical manufacturing process that has contaminated the Saginaw River watershed. In a New Year’s Eve announcement EPA called for public comments on a plan to change the preliminary remediation goals [...]
State officials say that a Dow Chemical-funded University of Michigan study on dioxin exposure in the Saginaw River watershed has spurred misperceptions about the contamination threat caused by Dow — and they say U-M’s lead researcher has not fully cooperated in efforts to address the problem.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tested Saginaw Bay-area municipal water supplies and found them free of toxic dioxin, but the soil in a residential area 22 miles downstream from Dow’s Midland complex has been recontaminated with dioxin and the plan for the long-term work of actually removing the contamination from the Saginaw River watershed is, after 30 years, still in its earliest stages.
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