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.
In the wake of last weekend’s spill of around 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana, Rep. Fred Upton’s House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold hearings later this month on pipeline safety.
To no one’s surprise, a bill that would force the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1 passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton, on Thursday.
Rep. Fred Upton continues to use his tenure as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to attempt to strip the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate toxic substances that threaten the environment.
Though the U.S. Congress currently has no official say in the process of deciding whether to greenlight the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would send tar sands crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas, leaders in both parties are gearing up for a fight on the subject anyway.
On Monday the House Energy and Commerce committee will discuss a bill that would require the Obama administration to finalize its decision on whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1.
Opponents of the privatization of Jean Klock Park are hoping that all the attention focused on Benton Harbor as a result of the suspension of local government will bring support for the legal fight to take back the park.
American Family Voices, a non-profit group that advocates for the environment and health care, has launched a TV ad campaign targeting Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) for his recent anti-EPA crusade.
U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who promised in February to scrutinize the Obama budget proposal “line by line” for any potential cuts, gave his staff some of the biggest year-end bonuses of any member of Congress, a data analysis by Congress watchdog group LegiStorm has found.
The massive oil spill last summer that contaminated dozens of miles of the Kalamazoo river with crude oil, has resulted in U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) announcing that he will move legislation on pipeline safety from his committee, Energy and Commerce.
A military veterans group is arguing that a Republican bill to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions would weaken national security by harming efforts to reduce dependence on oil.
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