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.
Attorney General Bill Schuette is trying to slow new rules on mercury even as research shows the toxin is present at dangerous levels in sport fish across the state.
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council are suing the state for issuing an air permit for a coal-burning power generation facility planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City.
The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts are asking House Energy and Commerce Chair Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) to oppose an effort to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from requiring cement plants to reduce their mercury emissions.
Mark Durno, assistant onsite incident commander for the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency working on the Enbridge oil spill in Calhoun County, says authorities have detected trace levels of both mercury and nickel in water and sediment samples along the river. This is the first time the EPA has released information about metal contaminates found in the [...]
In the last day many outlets have covered the plan, touted by Illinois governor Pat Quinn, to reduce the number of Asian carp in area water bodies by promoting the harvesting and export of the fish as food for the Chinese market. Missing from the discussion, it seems, is acknowledgment that carp are bottom-feeding fish [...]
Over the last 25 years Michigan has made no progress in reducing the amount of mercury in fish because there has been no reduction in mercury fallout from the atmosphere, Capital News Service reports. Mercury is a powerful neurotoxin.
American Municipal Power Inc., an Ohio-based wholesale electricity provider that supplies power to several Michigan communities, abandoned plans for a new coal-fired power plant last week after learning that the cost of emissions control technology increased the price of the project by 37 percent. Marc Gerken, AMP President/CEO said in a statement:
The Department of Environmental Quality says that amidst declining resources its Water Bureau is trying to meet its most critical obligations by prioritizing five goals and spelling out how to measure whether they are achieved. The Water Bureau’s “Measures of Success” document, released this month, describes the top goals as: to ensure safe drinking water, [...]
Michigan’s 19 coal-fired power plants will need to install technology to reduce mercury emissions by 2015, according to new rules finalized this week. Mercury is a powerful neurotoxin and coal burning power plants are the main source of mercury in the environment. The Michigan Department of Community Health has issued fish consumption advisories for all [...]
Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $10,000 so that the state of Michigan can post updated fish consumption advisory signs along the chemically contaminated Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers, warnings that the Midland-based company has balked at paying for previously.
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