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.
Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices. Now environmental groups and some conservative politicians are pointing out another problem — corn-based ethanol consumes the bulk of federal funding on renewable energy and the big oil companies that blend the ethanol into gasoline are collecting subsidies to the tune of about $6 billion a year.
Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) campaigned on cutting federal spending. Now some of his constituents are asking him to keep the U.S. Dept. of Energy from spending $58 million on a project to turn Upper Peninsula trees into ethanol.
Corn growers and ethanol makers are excited about EPA’s recent decision to allow 15 percent ethanol fuel to be used in vehicles made within the last ten years. Though Michigan has five ethanol plants there is little demand for E15 fuel, in part because motorists worry it will damage their cars.
An Upper Peninsula facility that would convert wood into ethanol for fuel will not open in 2012 as expected because it has failed to secure adequate financing, Xconomy.com reports. Research and development for the Kinross facility planned by Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Mascoma has been supported by tens of millions of dollars in state and federal [...]
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has named the small Lake Huron town of Alpena as one of the 19 communities where the department’s Biorefinery Assistance Program will fund pilot projects to develop new fuels from biomass. American Process, an Atlanta based company, was awarded $17.9 million to develop a plant that will make ethanol and [...]
October in Michigan doesn’t only represent mass consumption of sugar at Halloween; it’s sugar harvest time here, in the form of sugar beets.
Gov says agreement puts Michigan at the forefront of next-gen fuels It’s called a cellulosic ethanol plant and it is coming to Michigan, the Upper Peninsula to be exact. Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm and Mascoma Corp. CEO Bruce A. Jamerson announced Friday that several agreements have been reached to move along the Massachusetts company’s efforts [...]
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