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.
A security guard at DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant shot himself in the foot yesterday while putting away his weapon.
The 1,100 megawatt nuclear power plant that supplies power to Southeast Michigan shut down yesterday morning after high winds knocked out electricity to the plant and ripped the siding from a building that houses the plant’s radioactive waste systems, chemical control systems, and emergency cooling water systems. The Monroe Evening News reports that the emergency [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has asked the National Academy of Sciences to research the cancer risk associated with living near a nuclear power plant, the Institute for Southern Studies reports. The Commission said that “recurrent stakeholder requests” prompted the request for new research.
Plans to create a long-term high-level nuclear waste storage site along Lake Erie at DTE Energy’s Fermi power-generating complex in Monroe County have triggered safety concerns by area residents who warn that the spent fuel could be vulnerable to accident or attack. So far federal regulators have dismissed their calls for enhanced oversight.
The Michigan Dept. of Community Health announced today that beginning Oct. 1 it will offer a free one day supply of potassium iodide tablets to people who spend time within ten miles of the state’s three nuclear power plants. In the unlikely event of a nuclear power plant incident, a radioactive iodine release could occur. [...]
The board that oversees the licensing of nuclear power plants has ordered a hearing on concerns raised by opponents of a new reactor planned by DTE Energy. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled July 31 that four of the concerns raised by environmental groups and people who live near DTE energy’s Fermi complex in Monroe County warrant further examination.
I just came across a report by the Kemeny Commission which was formed by President Carter in 1979 to study the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, and was interested to find that the commission had recommendations for nuke safety actions that should be taken by the press.
Just one day after visiting the state, news that Sen. John McCain would return to Michigan next week leaked out. McCain plans to visit Michigan for back-to-back big-ticket fund-raisers on Aug. 13, according to the Detroit Free Press. Both are scheduled to be held in Birmingham, in McCain’s stronghold of Oakland County, at the Big [...]
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