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.
Michigan health officials say no one should eat any lake trout from Lake Michigan because the fish contain dangerous levels of PCB, dioxins, and the now-banned pesticide chlordane.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced on Wednesday that elevated levels of selenium below the tailings basin and waste rock piles of two mines operated by Cleveland Cliffs near Marquette in the Upper Peninsula could lead to reproductive failure in fish. Selenium is an element that can leach from rock that is exposed to [...]
Despite health department warnings that many Michigan fish are contaminated with mercury, PCBs, dioxin and other chemicals, more people are fishing in order to put food on their tables, according to this Detroit Free Press story, which quotes a Dept. of Natural Resources spokeswoman as saying, “It’s a great way to feed a family.”
Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $10,000 so that the state of Michigan can post updated fish consumption advisory signs along the chemically contaminated Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers, warnings that the Midland-based company has balked at paying for previously.
The Michigan Department of Community Health has issued an updated fish advisory with recommendations on how to reduce risks associated with eating fish from inland lakes, rivers and the Great Lakes. The “2009 Michigan Family Fish Consumption Guide: Important Facts to Know If You Eat Michigan Fish” advises women of childbearing age and children under [...]
In an effort to ward off a shareholder resolution that sought greater transparency of the company’s handling of dioxin contamination in the Saginaw River watershed, Dow Chemical gave the Securities and Exchange Commission inaccurate information about the state of Michigan’s consumption advisory for walleye downstream from the company’s Midland plant.
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