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.
As the battle over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions mounts, a new report shows that CO2 emissions grew in 2010, and that a Michigan coal plant is one of the nation’s biggest sources.
Energy issues dominated the environment reporting here this year as Michigan struggled with the ecological costs of power generation and the proper regulation of the means of power generation.
Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has granted DTE Energy an air permit for its Monroe coal plant — a move environmentalists say gives the utility company a pass on federal pollution rules set to go into effect in the new year.
A Michigan Public Service Commission investigation has determined that DTE Energy was not responsible for the fires that burned 81 homes in Detroit during a Sept. 7 windstorm.
Michigan-based DTE Energy has received $84 million in stimulus grant money despite a history of violating federal environmental law. In NEPA Exemptions: The Dirty Dozen List, the Center for Public Integrity reports that despite a pattern of Clean Air Act violations at the company’s coal plants, DTE’s grant-funded “smart grid” activities were granted a categorical [...]
The Michigan Public Service Commission announced this week that it will investigate whether DTE Energy has properly maintained its distribution system in Detroit. High winds last week resulted in around 750 downed power lines in the city and these lines are thought to have sparked fires that burned dozens of homes and overwhelmed the Detroit [...]
More than 750 downed DTE Energy power lines and appear to have played a major role in the fires that overwhelmed city firefighters and burned more than 85 structures during winds storms on Tuesday. As the city continues to assess the damage some residents are accusing DTE of contributing to the disaster by failing to [...]
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:
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding seven public hearings in August and September on its proposal to regulate the disposal of “coal ash,” a byproduct of coal-fired power production. Coal ash first became a part of the public discourse following a massive spill of the substance from a containment pond in Tennessee in 2008. A [...]
Michigan’s largest energy company is being sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by overhauling a unit at its Monroe coal fired power plant without installing technology to limit emissions of health damaging pollutants.
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