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.
Rep. Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills) has introduced a bill that would allow Michigan firms to manufacture incandescent light bulbs despite a federal ban. The bill states:
Michigan’s old coal plants cost an average family of four about $500 dollars per year in damages and expenses from hospital admissions and health problems, according to a report released this week by the Michigan Environmental Council
The Michigan Senate has passed a bill that would block state agencies from making environmental rules that are stricter than federal requirements, prompting concerns from environmental advocacy groups.
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.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment Director Rebecca Humphries announced yesterday that she is resigning from her position in state government to work as director of the Great Lakes/Atlantic Regional Office of Ducks Unlimited in Ann Arbor. “This opportunity will allow me to continue my career in conservation,” Humphries told DNRE staff yesterday in [...]
The Michigan Environmental Council has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to look into the states financially challenged air quality program which they say is leaving polluters unmonitored and putting residents’ health at risk.
Last month the Obama administration announced $8 billion in competitive grants for high speed rail, and though Michigan’s Department of Transportation had compiled about $1 billion in requests, the state ended up getting just $40 million to upgrade three rail stations. In an editorial in today’s Detroit Free Press Tim Fischer, deputy policy director for [...]
State environmental groups are urging Michigan House lawmakers to reject a Senate bill that would make it easier for electric utilities to develop coal plants.
Although some areas of the 2010 state budget remain under negotiation, both chambers of the Legislature have approved a 39 percent cut in general fund support for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, a move that will scale back environmental enforcement in the Great Lake State.
“If the state doesn’t have resources to establish programs to use federal funds or provide matching funds, Michigan is going to watch those funds go elsewhere,” said Noah Hall of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. “The federal government doesn’t want to give money if the state hasn’t shown it will value the program.”
Consumers Energy and Wolverine Power have failed to demonstrate a need for the coal-fired power plants they propose to build in Bay City and Rogers City, the Michigan Public Service Commission said in a report issued Tuesday. Unless it retires some of its existing fleet of power plants, which is not an explicit part of it’s proposal, Consumers Energy won’t need any additional generating capacity until 2020 the Public Service Commission found.
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