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.
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.
To mark the first anniversary of when Enbridge formally notified the federal government that an estimated one million gallons of crude oil had been released into the Kalamazoo River watershed, environmentalists are calling on two Republican congressman to stop political attacks aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The U.S. Department of State announced on Friday the remaining steps in the process of considering whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.
A Missoula County, Montana court has blocked the state Department of Transportation from issuing permits to an oil company that wants to move oversized tar sands mining equipment over state roads.
State regulators are considering a request by environmental groups that Michigan require natural gas production companies to disclosure the chemicals they pump into the ground as part of the fracking process.
The first mine to be permitted under Michigan’s non-ferrous metallic mining law — the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company nickel sulfide mine west of Marquette — continues to draw concerns and criticism.
The discovery this week of a sexually mature Asian carp in a lake connected to Lake Michigan has prompted renewed calls for emergency containment actions and for the ecological separation of the Mississippi River basin and the Great Lakes.
According to Andy Buchsbaum of the National Wildlife Federation Kennecott’s planned Upper Peninsula nickel sulfide mine, like BP’s Gulf oil wells, is a high risk underground extraction operation characterized by inappropriately cozy relations with regulators. In a blog post titled Coming soon: Michigan’s version of the BP disaster Buchsbaum writes that acid mine drainage is [...]
Last week when the International Joint Commission hosted an Ypsilanti hearing on the federal framework for combating Asian carp, many of those who testified where the same Chicago area maritime workers that dominated the hearing held by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago earlier this month. The Chicago people, concerned that their upcoming boating [...]
A $78.5 million dollar federal plan to keep Asian carp from becoming established in the Great Lakes is drawing criticism from diverse groups that say the proposed temporary closure of the locks in Chicago area canals will disrupt the economy without stopping the spread of aquatic invaders.
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