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.
The Environmental Protection Agency will soon offer their comments on the final Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the U.S. State Department concerning the Keystone XL pipeline.
The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases out of concern for climate change.
A Congressional investigation has revealed that oil and gas service companies are violating the Safe Drinking Water Act federal by pumping diesel into the ground as part of the fracking process.
During testimony Wednesday before the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced the agency had spent $17 million to date on cleanup efforts in Calhoun county. The EPA has been authorized to expend as much as $18 million from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
State Rep. Kate Segal (D-Battle Creek) issued a statement Tuesday slamming Hallmark Industrial for allegedly employing undocumented workers for the oil spill clean up in Calhoun County. Michigan Messenger broke the story about the undocumented workers Monday. In that story, Messenger also documented conditions at various work sites the undocumented workers were working at. Those [...]
Congressman Mark Schauer (D-Bedford Township) Tuesday called for investigations into allegations that Hallmark Industrial hired undocumented workers for clean up jobs on the oil spill in Calhoun County. The call came in letters to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. A Michigan Messenger investigation over the weekend uncovered [...]
A federal study of a potent toxin that has contaminated Michigan’s largest watershed may not be done by the end of the year as promised. The director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Assessment, Peter Preuss, has reportedly warned that EPA is “really unlikely” to meet the December 2010 deadline set [...]
Experts and local residents of the dioxin-laden Saginaw River watershed are displeased with a new agreement between the EPA and Dow that allows the chemical company to determine which areas are most in need of cleanup — even after that company has spent decades claiming that there is no need for cleanup at all.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public review of a proposed agreement with Dow Chemical that establishes a process for evaluating dioxin contamination in Saginaw Bay, the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers and their floodplains.
WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, when it seemed plausible that Congress would address climate change in 2009, energy industry representatives were hyping the need for legislation to fend off regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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