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.
A new U.S. Dept. of Energy-funded analysis of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline echoes some arguments made by environmental groups.
Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has granted DTE Energy an air permit for its Monroe coal plant — a move environmentalists say gives the utility company a pass on federal pollution rules set to go into effect in the new year.
This week the Obama Administration announced $47 million in new projects aimed at keeping invasive Asian carp from migrating into the Great Lakes. The 2011 carp action plan calls for new biological controls and increased e-DNA monitoring but does not include closing the locks in the Chicago waterway system.
A coalition of Great Lakes conservation groups is asking President Obama to appoint a “federal incident commander” to coordinate the federal response to the threat posed to the Great Lakes by invasive Asian carp. Last week months of positive Asian carp DNA samples were confirmed when a 20 lb. Bighead Asian carp was caught in [...]
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.
Fifteen percent of the monitored beaches in Michigan were closed or had health advisories due to E. coli bacteria from fecal contamination, Tina Lam at the Detroit Free Press reports, and since only 40 percent portion of the states beaches are even tested for E. coli, it’s unknown how much contamination exists at some of [...]
As Michigan markets its beaches to tourists with a multimillion-dollar “Pure Michigan” ad campaign, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water data show sewage spills and storm water runoff are contaminating beachwater, particularly in the Great Lakes. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which monitors EPA information: Nationally, seven percent of beachwater samples violated health standards, [...]
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