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 U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that authorizes the transfer of 2,400 acres of Arizona federal forest land to the UK and Australia-based mining company, Rio Tinto.
Opponents of a nickel and copper mine that is slated to begin blasting this month have asked a judge to issue an injunction on drilling while she considers an appeal of permits granted for the project.
Local government officials are asking the governor not to sign a new bill that blocks communities from restricting the areas where mines can be placed.
Opponents of the Kennecott nickel sulfide mine under development west of Marquette are asking Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate the process by which state regulators permitted the mine.
The owners of a controversial new mine in Michigan’s upper peninsula have released the results of focus group meetings with nearly 100 residents of the area about the mine. The mine is owned by Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company and has been the target of protests and increased concerns about environmental issues stemming from the mining [...]
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary, Kennecott, is building a nickel sulfide mine west of Marquette, has earned a reputation for a willingness to cut corners on safety and environmental safeguards, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) warned in an op-ed distributed across northern Michigan over the weekend. Stupak, who chairs of the House [...]
Hundreds of people, including members of several regional tribes, have visited Eagle Rock over the last 11 days to show their support for a Native American encampment aimed at protecting the sacred site from mining by the Kennecott Minerals Co.
Bloomfield Hills businessman Richard Gabrys, who is a director of Jackson-based CMS Energy and also of Massey Energy, is being targeted for removal from the Massey board by an investment group arguing that as a member of Massey’s Safety, Environmental and Public Policy Committee he is responsible for the company’s poor safety compliance record. On [...]
Two days before the DEQ ceases to exist and a week after its director stepped down, DEQ moved to wrap up a long standing fight over permits for a planned nickel sulfide mine by concluding that only buildings may be considered “places of worship.”
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulfide mine near Marquette, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in the western Upper Peninsula, the Lake Superior Mining News reports. On Nov. 6 Rio Tinto notified the Bureau of Land Management [...]
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