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.
As the battle over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions mounts, a new report shows that CO2 emissions grew in 2010, and that a Michigan coal plant is one of the nation’s biggest sources.
Michigan’s largest energy company is being sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by overhauling a unit at its Monroe coal fired power plant without installing technology to limit emissions of health damaging pollutants.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is suing DTE Energy for violating the Clean Air Act by overhauling a unit at its Monroe power plant without installing technology to limit emissions of health damaging pollutants. The Detroit News reports that the suit filed in federal court today asks that the unit be shutdown until the company [...]
The chair of the state agency directed to work with home owners facing default is himself in default to the tune of millions of dollars, reports the Detroit News.
During a high-profile visit to southeast Michigan’s Fermi 2 nuclear generating complex Aug. 5 by nuclear power advocate and presidential candidate John McCain, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the first public meeting on plans for the construction of a new reactor at Fermi. If you can’t make it to the La-Z-Boy Center at Monroe County Community [...]
Taxpayers must underwrite construction; plants are slow to come online
Monroe County loves the ladies: Democrat Kate Ebli, one of the county’s two female state representatives, will face Republican Jean Dahm in November. Dahm, a former registered nurse who now owns a tech company with her three sons, won her primary Tuesday against Bob Beadles by a 2-1 margin. Ebli was unchallenged.
Apparently determined to let no visit by his opponent go unchallenged, Sen. John McCain descended on Michigan today just one day after Sen. Barack Obama visited the state’s capital.
MONROE, Mich. — Here is some late-breaking video of Sen. John McCain’s remarks here at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station on the shore of Lake Erie, south of Detroit. McCain was joined by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) — whom McCain mistakenly identified as a senator. Note the nuclear power [...]
The Fermi 2 nuclear reactor in Monroe was shut down on Thursday afternoon after two water pumps stopped functioning. Fermi 2 is a General Electric boiling water reactor, owned by DTE Energy. The plant is 23 years old and generates 1089 megawatts of electricity when functioning at full power. “The cause of the reactor recirc [...]
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