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.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is warning that the reactor it built for DTE Energy’s Fermi II nuclear power plant may not shut down properly during an earthquake.
The U.S. has 23 GE Mark 1 reactors like the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 which exploded and released radiation over the weekend — including the Fermi II plant here in Michigan.
An incident involving a nuclear reactor going into “hot shutdown” at DTE Energy’s Fermi II power generation station in Monroe County late last month went largely unnoticed locally and is raising questions about what exactly happened at the plant. DTE officials have minimized the incident, stressing that it’s dangerous to make assumptions about the safety of the reactor following the situation where high vibrations from a bearing in the plant’s main turbine caused operators to manually switch the reactor into shutdown.
Coalition cites Michigan Messenger’s reporting in analysis of health concerns; state health official responds, promises to investigate cancer pattern in Monroe County
State health report shows 31 percent increase in cancer rate among young people in Monroe County since 1996
Childhood leukemia rates are higher for kids who live near old nuclear power plants. Janette Sherman MD of the Environmental Institute at Western Michigan University and Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project are authors of “Childhood Leukaemia Near Nuclear Installations” published in the current edition of the European Journal of Cancer Care.
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