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.
Federal grant money designated to improve the water quality in Saginaw Bay will instead be used to trap and kill wild pigs. The Bay City Times reports that up to $5.6 million will be made available to private landowners and farmers for feral swine elimination projects in the 19 county region that makes up the [...]
With the mood in Washington trending toward deep budget cuts, environmental groups are concerned that funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative may be slashed by Congress.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of the projects it is considering funding under its $475 million dollar Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and according to a Michigan League of Conservation Voters analysis, Michigan could potentially receive almost half of the latest funding allotted to projects in the basin.
The Obama administration has released its plan for how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will pursue the most pressing environmental problems in the Great Lakes between now and 2014. $475 million has been allocated for the first year of projects in this program. The five main areas of focus for work are: Toxic Substances and [...]
While Gov. Jennifer Granholm and other Great Lakes leaders were meeting at the White House with the leadership of the key executive agencies involved, the Obama administration released the details of a 25-point plan to prevent the destructive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes — but stopped short of agreeing to close the locks [...]
Great Lakes cleanup efforts are slated to receive $300 million in the proposed budget unveiled yesterday by President Obama. This represents a steep decline from this year’s $475 million appropriation, but environmental groups still see this funding as a step forward. “This is not the amount of funding we had hoped for, but coupled with [...]
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has released a document titled Michigan’s Strategic Framework for the 2010 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. This document spells out how they would like to spend Michigan’s portion of the $475 million approved by Congress for the clean up and restoration of the Great Lakes. The priorities include several million [...]
Congress on Thursday approved the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a $475 million package that includes funding for the prevention of invasive species, cleaning up toxic sites and protecting and expanding wetlands throughout the Great Lakes states. About $131 million of that money will go to wastewater and drinking water projects in the state of Michigan, [...]
If Congress does end up doubling the funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, as they are likely to do, the Detroit News reports that there are five primary areas where the money would go: invasive species containment; restoring wetlands; cleaning up contaminated rivers and streams; fertilizer and pesticide runoff from agricultural and residential lands; [...]
Hundreds turned out in East Lansing on Monday night to hear details of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan to spend $475 million to clean up the Great Lakes. Great Lakes Echo reports that the main citizen requests were that the public be included in the plan and that there be more outreach aimed at [...]
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