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.
Canadian energy officials say the geology along the shore of Lake Huron provides ideal conditions for long term underground storage of nuclear waste, but US groups are worried about potential impacts on the Great Lakes.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tested Saginaw Bay-area municipal water supplies and found them free of toxic dioxin, but the soil in a residential area 22 miles downstream from Dow’s Midland complex has been recontaminated with dioxin and the plan for the long-term work of actually removing the contamination from the Saginaw River watershed is, after 30 years, still in its earliest stages.
It’s been four months since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated new dealings with Dow Chemical over the handling of dioxin contamination in Michigan’s Saginaw River watershed and the agency says it expects its closed-door cleanup framework negotiations with the company to conclude by Friday.
SAGINAW — At a community meeting on dioxin contamination in the Saginaw River watershed, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials Wednesday night committed to sampling local municipal water systems for dioxin and posting up-to-date fish consumption advisory signs — two key and immediate community concerns that have been examined in depth by Michigan Messenger.
BAY CITY — A regulatory loophole means Great Lakes fish that may contain potentially dangerous levels of cancer causing dioxin are being sold to consumers without warning.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s promise to hold Dow Chemical accountable for dioxin contamination in Michigan’s largest watershed is being greeted with “cautious optimism” by some environmental groups and with weariness by others who have been living on contaminated ground for so long they’ve learned not to get too excited about the announcement of a government action plan.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started a project to remove contaminated sediments from the Saginaw River without safety measures requested by the state, a move that sparked worry because toxins such as dioxin could make their way into the water supplies for Saginaw and Bay City, which don’t test for the toxins.
Canada’s environmental agency is asking for comments on plans to develop an underground nuclear waste storage facility 50 miles from Michigan along the eastern shore of Lake Huron. The proposed dump or “deep geologic repository” would be located in the Ontario municipality of Kincardine, next to the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the continent’s largest nuclear [...]
Ontario Power Generation, the Ontario-based electricity generation company, has proposed storing Canada’s nuclear waste 600 meters underground at a site next to Lake Huron. The largest nuclear generating facility in North America, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, is located near the small Lake Huron town of Kincardine. Last month, Larry Kraemer, the mayor of Kincardine, [...]
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