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.
When the state raised nearly $200 million by leasing public land to oil and gas companies for natural gas drilling it looked like Michigan was going to be the next state to see a huge explosion of hydrofracking, but so far the boom has failed to materialize.
Between 2005 and 2009, the nation’s 14 leading natural gas drilling service companies used hydraulic fracturing fluids containing 29 different chemicals regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) as potential human carcinogens, according to a new congressional report released Saturday.
The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held hearings Tuesday on the use of hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, a controversial new technique for mining natural gas that is expected to be used on more than half a million acres of Michigan land.
Cornell University researchers have found that natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing creates more damaging greenhouse gas emissions than coal.
A grassroots coalition, Don’t Frack Michigan, is circulating a petition to ban hydraulic fracturing in Michigan.
Legislation has been introduced in both houses of Congress to regulate the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, to mine natural gas deposits, in order to protect water supplies from contamination.
Though agency scientists and industry-funded reports have warned about the public health risks of radioactive wastewater from natural gas fracking operations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has done little to address the problem.
Energy issues dominated the environment reporting here this year as Michigan struggled with the ecological costs of power generation and the proper regulation of the means of power generation.
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 New York State Assembly has approved a six month moratorium on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking. Hydrofracking uses water, sand, chemicals and high pressure to release natural gas from shale deposits deep underground and has been linked to groundwater contamination. The technique is also responsible for the recent decrease in natural [...]
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