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 Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday a schedule for the development of new standards to regulate the disposal and handling of wastewater generated by the practice of hydrofracking for natural gas.
The American Lung Association is strongly criticizing Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette for suing the federal government to prevent the implementation of new clean air regulations governing power plant emissions.
The Democrats on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), are drawing attention to more than 150 votes taken in the House to weaken environmental regulation by the EPA and other agencies.
DEWITT — Six of the men vying for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012 squared off Thursday in DeWitt at a Tea Party-sponsored forum and came out in favor of abolishing numerous federal agencies.
To mark the first anniversary of when Enbridge formally notified the federal government that an estimated one million gallons of crude oil had been released into the Kalamazoo River watershed, environmentalists are calling on two Republican congressman to stop political attacks aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Levels of heavy metals have increased in water samples being conducted along the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek nearly a year after an oil pipeline ruptured in the area spewing an estimated one million gallons of oil into the waterways.
Almost a year after the worst oil spill in state history coated 37 miles of the Kalamazoo River watershed with tar sands crude, the company responsible for the mess still controls the river — and some residents would like to get a look at what’s going on.
The Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily ceased clean-up operations of last year’s massive oil spill since last week because of storms and high flood levels on the Kalamazoo River.
Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, seeks to reduce the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, a new EPA study concludes that the Act has saved millions of lives.
The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases out of concern for climate change.
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