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.
A proposed House bill that would require members of the Natural Resources Commission to have a history of purchasing hunting and fishing licenses would turn the group that oversees the Department of Natural Resources and Environment into a gun club, critics say. Gayle Miller, legislative director for the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club warns [...]
The proposed budget put out by Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives includes a provision to significantly increase the sale of timber from state forests. Experts call the plan environmentally unsound and say that it is unlikely to raise the revenue assumed in the budget proposal.
Environmental groups that have been seeking to block construction of the Fermi 3 nuclear reactor planned by DTE Energy have asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to suspend licensing activity for the plant because of quality assurance problems identified by the NRC.
The Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club is urging people to e-mail the legislators who have scheduled a 3:55 a.m. (Saturday morning) conference committee meeting on a bill that would ease permit requirements for coal-fired power plants. Rep. Darwin Booher (R-Evart) , Rep. Mike Lahti (D-Hancock), Rep. Andy Coulouris(D-Saginaw), Sen. Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau), Sen. [...]
As electricity demand drops in Michigan and state and federal programs promise investment and “green jobs” in renewable power, clean energy advocates are rallying on the Capitol steps in Lansing to keep up pressure against new coal development.
A dozen environmental groups are asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to take a hard look at a analysis submitted by Wolverine Power Cooperative in support of its proposal to build a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Rogers City. “Electricity co-op customers in the Western Upper Peninsula learned recently that they will be hit [...]
The Department of Environmental Quality will host public hearings this week on a plans to build a new 930 megawatt coal-fired power plant at the Consumers Power Karn-Weadock facility at the mouth of the Saginaw River. Consumers Power, the largest electricity provider in Michigan, announced an 11 percent rate increase in March and some worry [...]
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