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 Dept. of Environmental Quality sampling device in Lansing has detected a small amount of radioactive iodine-131 in the air, a likely result of the Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan.
The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected a Michigan Farm Bureau attempt to limit the Dept. of Environmental Quality’s authority to require pollution discharge permits from concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs.
In a flurry of legislative activity late last week the Senate passed a bill with provisions that would ban the Dept. of Environmental Quality from considering whether proposed power plants are necessary and prudent. This measure, if passed through the House might have squashed a February executive order from Gov. Granholm that directed DEQ to [...]
Employees of the state departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality have received notice that their departments will merge as of Jan. 17, 2010. DNR Director Becky Humphries and DEQ Director Stephen Chester told their staff members to expect details of the restructuring plan to be announced in an executive order to be issued by [...]
No staff cuts or service reductions are expected in the Department of Environmental Quality as a result of the budget cuts announced by the governor today. The department will be able to cover the $5 million reduction in general fund support through a “patchwork” of other resources, spokesman Bob McCann said, he noted that DEQ [...]
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