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.
Enbridge Energy Partners, a Canadian oil company responsible for the July 2010 rupture of the Lakehead Pipeline 6B which spewed an estimated one million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, is providing two Calhoun county programs with cash and services for improvements of parks and river access.
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.
Enbridge Energy Partners has notified the EPA that it has not completed the cleanup of an estimated 200 acres of submerged oil along the bottom of the Kalamazoo River.
John Walke, Clean Air Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, writes an essay responding to legislators and industry representatives who have been attacking the EPA and seeking to weaken its authority to protect the nation’s air and water resources.
When the Enbridge Energy Partners pipeline known as Lakehead Pipeline 6B ruptured last July 25, it not only spewed a million gallons of heavy tar sands crude oil into the Kalamazoo river, it open the flood gates to a series of criminal and civil investigations.
The cleanup of the Midwest’s worst oil spill in Calhoun County last July 25 continues a year later, and officials from both Enbridge, the company that owns the pipeline, and the government agencies overseeing it say the spill has ‘unique challenges.’
The U.S. Department of State announced on Friday the remaining steps in the process of considering whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.
American Family Voices, a non-profit group that advocates for the environment and health care, has launched a TV ad campaign targeting Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) for his recent anti-EPA crusade.
The American Lung Association is speaking out strongly against a bill that would remove the EPA’s ability to regulate activities that produce greenhouse gases, including an amendment offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow that would eliminate that regulation for two years.
As Georgia-Pacific continues to fight environmental groups and the state Department of Environmental Protection over the waste that it dumps into Florida’s rivers and streams, the paper company may be headed for similarly-heated battles elsewhere.
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