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.
Enbridge, the company that spilled at least 800,000 gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River system last year, has announced that it is suspending efforts to scrape the remaining submerged oil from the river bottom.
The company responsible for the biggest oil spill in Michigan history has announced plans to expand the capacity of the line that crosses underwater at the Straits of Mackinac.
In a report submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Enbridge increased its estimate of how much it will cost to clean up the company’s Kalamazoo River oil spill.
The U.S. State Department’s long-awaited final Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline seems to overlook some of the lessons from last year’s Enbridge tar sands spill.
State health officials are reassuring people who live near the Kalamazoo River that touching submerged oil on the river bottom is not likely to cause cancer.
Enbridge Energy may be violating its Kalamazoo River oil spill cleanup agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by submitting incomplete air sampling data, the EPA says in a document it released to the public accidentally.
Though Exxon Mobil initially insisted that the pipeline that ruptured and spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River this month carried only low sulfur crude from Wyoming, the company has now acknowledged that the pipeline is used to transport tar sands crude from Alberta.
Western Michigan University professor Michael Barcelona is looking for Kalamazoo River area property owners that want to participate in a study of how last summer’s Enbridge oil spill may be affecting groundwater.
Almost a year after the worst oil spill in state history coated 37 miles of the Kalamazoo River watershed with tar sands crude, the company responsible for the mess still controls the river — and some residents would like to get a look at what’s going on.
Canada’s National Energy Board restricted the flow of oil through pipelines in that country in response to the Enbridge pipeline rupture that fouled at least 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River last summer.
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