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 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City has been denied an air permit by the state Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment, Governor Granholm announced today. Granholm said that the state’s decision was based on a Michigan Public Service Commission analysis that found [...]
As the state government and energy companies push for using state forest land for wood burning power plants, some experts question the sustainability of such a practice and urge a broad public conversation about the possible alternatives.
BP Alternative Energy has notified the Huron – Manistee National Forest that it is planning to withdraw its application to build up to 28 turbines, each one 420 feet tall, on federal land north of Ludington. Forest spokesman Ken Arbogast said today that the permitting process for the proposed wind park has been suspended pending [...]
Biomass electricity generation is being touted as renewable energy with benefits for the state economy, but a comparison between a proposed wood-burning plant in Mancelona and a recently permitted coal-fired plant near Bay City shows that wood-burning plants can emit more of some harmful pollutants.
Implementing a proposed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Michigan could create 129,000 new jobs, increase state economic output by $25 billion and significantly reduce home energy costs by 2025, according to an analysis released this week by the nonprofit Center for Climate Strategies. The report examined the economic impact associated with carrying out [...]
Wolverine Power Cooperative is still waiting to see whether state regulators will allow it to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke-fired power plant in Rogers City, but the company has gone ahead and purchased a 340 megawatt natural gas-fired plant in Wayne County. The plant is located in Sumpter, was built in 2002 by FirstEnergy [...]
The first public presentation of a plan to build as many as 200 windmills in a 100 square mile stretch of Lake Michigan off the coast of Ludington generated numerous concerns among locals this week. The Ludington Daily News reports that representatives of Havgul Energy and Scandia Wind told locals that the wind turbines would [...]
A continuing decline in demand for electricity may work against Wolverine Power Cooperative’s bid to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke fired power plant along the shore of Lake Huron, Glenn Puit of the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service reports.
The area around Wolverine Power Cooperative’s planned coal plant in Rogers City features unique limestone geology with sinkholes and unpredictable groundwater flow. State officials and environmental professionals have warned that this leaky limestone geology makes landfills especially dangerous. Glenn Puit of the Great Lakes Environmental News Service reports that despite warnings about the risk to [...]
Michigan’s 19 coal-fired power plants will need to install technology to reduce mercury emissions by 2015, according to new rules finalized this week. Mercury is a powerful neurotoxin and coal burning power plants are the main source of mercury in the environment. The Michigan Department of Community Health has issued fish consumption advisories for all [...]
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