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 Sierra Club, the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and members of Occupy Detroit are planning to gather at DTE Energy’s downtown office tomorrow for a demonstration against the company’s coal-fired power plants and its practice of shutting off utilities when people can’t pay.
A recently publicized report that touts the construction jobs associated with an increased use of natural gas for electricity fails to consider the ecological downsides of fracking, state environmental groups say.
A bill that would codify a voluntary pollution prevention program for farmers is moving swiftly through the legislature but environmentalists are concerned that it will excuse livestock operations from penalties for water contamination.
State environmental groups are calling on the EPA to respond to a Dow-Chemical funded mailer that downplays the risk of living amidst dioxin contamination.
In a press conference with members of the Democratic caucus today House Minority Leader Richard E. Hammel (D-Mt. Morris Township) said that building a coal plant is one of three Democratic initiatives to develop jobs.
The “business model” approach to government unveiled by Governor-elect Rick Snyder yesterday puts former Dept. of Agriculture director Dan Wyant — an opponent regulating the negative environmental effects of large farms — in charge of the Dept. of Environmental Quality.
State Rep. Gary McDowell, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s First District is asking state and federal regulators to take a close look at underwater oil pipeline work planned by Enbridge at the Mackinac Straits, which falls within his district. Enbridge has requested a state permit to build underwater supports for the 57 year [...]
The Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state of Michigan for denying an air permit for a coal-fired power plant the company planned to build in Rogers City.
BP’s oil spill in the Gulf has spread over 2,000 square miles of water but it does not seem to have impacted customer attitudes about the company, the Associated Press reports. The Sierra Club Michigan Chapter wants to change this and will attempt to raise awareness of BP’s responsibility for the disaster by staging a [...]
Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice told his country’s largest electricity producers this week that they will have to phase out coal plants within the next 10 to 15 years, CTV News reports. Canada plans to shut down the nation’s coal power plants in order to achieve a goal of 90 percent reliance on clean energy [...]
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