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 coalition of state environmental groups is asking Michigan regulators to require that Enbridge shut down and flush the pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac before the company begins needed maintenance work on the line.
Enbridge has notified the state of Michigan that it must reinforce the section of pipeline that runs under Straits of Mackinac this month. In an Aug. 26 letter to the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment the company said that it will perform visual inspections and build ten or more additional support structures for the [...]
The pipeline that spilled an estimated million gallons of Canadian crude into the Kalamazoo River system last month has a dent in the section that runs under the St. Clair River where it crosses into Ontario. Half of Michigan’s population receives drinking water from systems downstream from this crossing.
Scientists studying Lake Superior say that according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration water in the lake is 15 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year and is on track to exceed its record temperature of 68 degrees. The New York Times reports that the Great Lakes are viewed as [...]
Reps. Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor) and Sarah Roberts (D-St. Clair Shores) — both members of the House Great Lakes and Environment Committee — have joined a coalition of regional environmentalists and politicians that are opposing the planned shipment of 16 school bus-sized radioactive steam generators over the Great Lakes this fall. The steam generators are [...]
After causing the greatest environmental disaster in the history of the country, one would think that governmental leaders would be less likely than ever to allow BP to flout environmental laws. One would be wrong. Our friendly neighbors to the south have granted BP an exemption from state environmental laws to allow the company to [...]
A coalition of Great Lakes conservation groups is asking President Obama to appoint a “federal incident commander” to coordinate the federal response to the threat posed to the Great Lakes by invasive Asian carp. Last week months of positive Asian carp DNA samples were confirmed when a 20 lb. Bighead Asian carp was caught in [...]
House Democrats announced yesterday that they will seek a constitutional amendment to ban offshore drilling in the great lakes. Michigan and the other Great Lakes states have already enacted a pact that bans drilling for natural gas and oil in the Lakes, but some say that a constructional amendment banning the practice would provide stronger [...]
While British Petroleum (BP) is in the news for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — quickly becoming the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history — environmental groups and lawmakers are arguing that the company’s environmental practices pose a similar threat to the Great Lakes.
Fears that proposed water protection legislation will limit the rights of homeowners and farmers led an Oakland County board to recommend a resolution opposing HB 5319, a bill that would declare water a public trust resource that must be managed for the benefit of all.
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