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 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.
A series of severe storms in the Lansing area has crippled the Michigan Public Service Commission, shutting the state program down until phone lines and flooding can be addressed.
In a reversal of a decision made last year, the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment has approved the construction of a new 78 megawatt coal-fired power plant planned by the Holland Board of Public Works.
A state program to reduce the need for new power plants by promoting more efficient use of energy is working even better than expected according to the Michigan Public Service Commission.
A Michigan Public Service Commission investigation has determined that DTE Energy was not responsible for the fires that burned 81 homes in Detroit during a Sept. 7 windstorm.
The Michigan Public Service Commission announced this week that it will investigate whether DTE Energy has properly maintained its distribution system in Detroit. High winds last week resulted in around 750 downed power lines in the city and these lines are thought to have sparked fires that burned dozens of homes and overwhelmed the Detroit [...]
About a week ago the Holland Board of Public Works announced that it would sue the state of Michigan for taking so long to decide on an air permit for a planned coal plant expansion. Today the DNRE may have preempted that lawsuit by announcing that it is rejecting the request to build a new [...]
The Holland Board of Public Works has approved a plan to sue the state Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment for failing to take action on a permit for a coal plant expansion that has been pending since January 2007. The Board’s decision follows a July Michigan Public Service Commission report that stated that the [...]
The Holland Board of Public Works’ plan to develop a new 70-megawatt coal-fired power plant fails to consider alternative and more cost effective ways of meeting the need for energy, the Michigan Public Service Commission announced yesterday. MPSC also stated the plan relies on “overly optimistic” projections about demand growth.
A 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City has been denied an air permit by the state Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment, Governor Granholm announced today. Granholm said that the state’s decision was based on a Michigan Public Service Commission analysis that found [...]
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