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.
The State Department’s decision to spend more time considering a permit for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline may boost the outlook for a competing pipeline planned by Enbridge, owners of the pipeline that burst in Calhoun County last year.
Last year’s devastating spill of nearly a million gallons of tar sands crude oil into the Kalamazoo River is having an impact on the public’s perception of the safety of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline as the federal government nears a final decision on the project.
In a report submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Enbridge increased its estimate of how much it will cost to clean up the company’s Kalamazoo River oil spill.
Despite Enbridge Energy Partners’ failure to meet an Aug. 31 deadline to remove an estimated 200 acres of submerged oil from the bottom of the Kalamazoo River, EPA officials say the cleanup is making progress.
The U.S. State Department’s long-awaited final Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline seems to overlook some of the lessons from last year’s Enbridge tar sands spill.
Hundreds of people are expected to risk arrest in sit-ins at the White House in an effort to convince President Obama to deny the permit for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.
State health officials are reassuring people who live near the Kalamazoo River that touching submerged oil on the river bottom is not likely to cause cancer.
Enbridge, the Canadian oil pipeline company responsible for the largest oil spill in Midwest history, has announced plans to expand its U.S. pipeline network to move more oil across the country to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
Enbridge Inc., the company responsible for the largest oil spill in Midwest history in Calhoun County last year, says it may look to expand one of its pipelines that carries tar sands oil from Canada all the way to the Gulf Coast to compete with TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.
Enbridge Energy may be violating its Kalamazoo River oil spill cleanup agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by submitting incomplete air sampling data, the EPA says in a document it released to the public accidentally.
Do you know where to vote on Election Day? Do you know what to bring with you? Get comprehensive voter information for your state here.
Sign up for our email newsletter