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.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is warning that the reactor it built for DTE Energy’s Fermi II nuclear power plant may not shut down properly during an earthquake.
Dozens of groups and individuals are asking the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend licensing and other activities at 21 nuclear plants until the agency completes an investigation of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
U.S. nuclear development, already slowed by a lack of private investment, seems likely to be further stalled by the political fallout from the Fukushima disaster in Japan. How fast this slowdown will lead to more renewables is an open question.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the time it is taking to consider license renewal applications from aging nuclear power plants.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is investigating the apparent radioactive contamination of hundreds of workers at Canada’s only privately operated nuclear plant, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, which sits on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Kincardine, fifty miles from Michigan. The Globe and Mail reports that as many as 217 workers may have [...]
Environmental groups that have been seeking to block construction of the Fermi 3 nuclear reactor planned by DTE Energy have asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to suspend licensing activity for the plant because of quality assurance problems identified by the NRC.
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
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 [...]
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