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.
Emmett Township Public Safety officials confirm that firefighters from the department have investigated 9-1-1 reports that there was a heavy odor of oil near the Ceresco dam.
Recent aerial photos published by the Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality show that oil from last summer’s Enbridge pipeline spill in Marshall is still present in Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
Calhoun county officials say they are prepared to continue a ban on contact with the Kalamazoo River indefinitely.
Officials in Calhoun County are trying to figure out how to negotiate with Enbridge for funds to pay for a long term study of the health effects of last year’s oil spill.
The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal charges over its 2010 Michigan pipeline rupture.
The 30 mile long stretch of the Kalamazoo River that was impacted by the Enbridge oil spill last July will remain closed all summer because of ongoing contamination, an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said Friday.
The company responsible for Michigan’s largest oil spill announced this week that it will increase payments to shareholders by 15 percent.
When Enbridge’s Lakehead 6B pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into the river that runs through the heart of Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-St. Joseph) district last year, the congressman pledged aggressive action to protect the Great Lakes ecosystem.
Enbridge Energy Partners LLC has increased by 3 percent its estimate of how much oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River after a pipeline ruptured in Marshall in July.
Workers employed by Enbridge Energy Partners made a gruesome discovery Saturday while conducting clean up activities on the Kalamazoo River. A body was found with a gun shot wound to the chest, reports the Associated Press, and an autopsy is scheduled for Monday. Police have been searching the river for the gun, and the Battle [...]
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