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 dozen state environmental and energy groups are asking governor-elect Rick Snyder to maintain the Granholm administration’s policy on permits for coal plants.
State environmental groups are urging Michigan House lawmakers to reject a Senate bill that would make it easier for electric utilities to develop coal plants.
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.
In an executive order issued Thursday afternoon, Gov. Jennifer Granholm directed the departments of Environmental Quality and Natural Resources to prepare to be combined as of Jan. 17, 2010. The governor characterized the consolidation as streamlining move that will also “better enable the state to conserve, manage, protect and promote Michigan’s environmental, natural resource and [...]
A bill to restrict the use of lindane, a pesticide used to treat lice and scabies in children, was passed overwhelming by the Michigan House earlier this year but appears stalled in the Senate where Majority Leader Mike Bishop has referred the legislation to Committee on Government Operations and Reform.
“The government operations committee is where things go to die,” said Rep. Dan Scripps, a Democrat from Leland sponsoring the House legislation.
Complex bills get mixed reviews, with Michigan still behind the pack The passage of a wide-reaching package of energy bills by the House last month was celebrated as a step toward a more modern energy plan for the state, but the renewable energy standards proposed lag behind those in other states and some worry the [...]
President Bush has signed into law the first increase in fuel-efficiency standards in 32 years for American automakers. The law also mandates increases in the production and sale of renewable fuels. But Detroit is already warning consumers to expect price increases. Charles Griffith, director of the Auto Project for the Ecology Center, a nonprofit environmental [...]
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