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.
Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation.
In order to get just five percent of its energy from biomass the 600 megawatt power plant planned by Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City will burn 255,000 tons of freshly cut Northern Michigan trees each year.
Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) campaigned on cutting federal spending. Now some of his constituents are asking him to keep the U.S. Dept. of Energy from spending $58 million on a project to turn Upper Peninsula trees into ethanol.
An Upper Peninsula facility that would convert wood into ethanol for fuel will not open in 2012 as expected because it has failed to secure adequate financing, Xconomy.com reports. Research and development for the Kinross facility planned by Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Mascoma has been supported by tens of millions of dollars in state and federal [...]
Michigan’s optimistic governor should be aware that the state is not only competing with Asia in building a lithium-ion battery infrastructure, but with neighboring states with ambitions just as sweeping. There is, however, one important difference: Michigan, as far as it has fallen from grace as the center of automotive manufacturing, still has further to fall if it is not careful.
Is the governor’s signature green project another promising renewable fuels project in the U.S., or is it a short-lived give-away that will cut down wildlife habitat while reducing one of the best tools for removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere?
Gov. Jennifer Granholm used a good chunk of her State of the State address Tuesday night to discuss alternative energy, which she presented as a major opportunity for job growth in Michigan. Reiterating a pitch for increasing the wind-power industry, which she has been making around the state over the past months, Granholm said that [...]
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