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.
Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA administrator in charge of water quality issues during the Bush administration, now says that a preliminary study done by the EPA should not have been used to deregulate the practice of hydrofracking.
The Natural Resources Defense Council just finished a round of polling in the districts of key legislators who voted last week to prevent the EPA from regulating the emission of greenhouse gases, including Michigan’s Rep. Dan Benishek and Rep. Mike Rogers.
John Bolenbaugh, the fired oil spill worker, has posted a video on Youtube that contains text messages between himself and his former supervisor on the Calhoun County oil spill cleanup that appear to confirm that workers were told to cover up oil in many places rather than clean it up.
Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operations. As a result, the EPA announced Tuesday that it will force the company to comply with its request. In September, the EPA sent voluntary information requests to nine hydraulic fracturing [...]
A local activist who worked on the cleanup efforts after the Calhoun County oil spill, shoots daily video reports showing significant amounts of oil remain even after the EPA declared the major cleanup efforts done — and says he was instructed to conceal that oil rather than remove it when working for a contractor.
Expecting to emerge from tomorrow’s election with control of the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate as well, the Republicans are planning to use their newfound power to attack the Obama administration’s environmental policies, particularly the EPA’s attempts to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant. The Lansing State Journal reports:
Federal and state authorities told a gathering of Marshall residents Thursday night that monitoring of the Kalamazoo River in Calhoun County will continue at least through 2015, and possibly through 2020, as a result of the spill of more than a million gallons of oil into the river in July. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
A portion of St. Clair Shores that has had a 10-year battle with PCB contamination in surface and ground waters has been officially designated by the EPA as a Superfund site. Superfund status makes federal dollars available for testing and cleanup. The original source of the PCBs here have never been found and that will [...]
Enbridge Energy announced Thursday during a press briefing that it planned to restart the Lakehead Pipeline 6B on Monday Sept. 27, with one caveat — they are awaiting final approval from federal regulators.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a statement after yesterday’s oil spill from another Enbridge pipeline, this time in Romeoville, Illinois. The new leak is in line 6A, which feeds into line 6B, the one that burst in Marshall, Michigan in late July. The EPA said:
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