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.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a special investigation team to Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant to examine the circumstances around the plant’s latest unplanned shutdown.
DTE Energy has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the company to operate the Fermi 2 nuclear plant until 2045.
Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s network of radiation monitors does not reach the public quickly and some monitors are not functional, critics say.
One of the new reporters at our sister site the Washington Independent, Andrew Restuccia, reports this morning on a loophole in the process of approving and regulating nuclear power plants in this country. Specifically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not conduct broad assessments of nuclear proliferation concerns. Referring to a proposed new facility in North [...]
The federal regulators that are considering granting a license for DTE Energy’s proposed Fermi 3 nuclear reactor have agreed to investigate quality assurance violations associated with plans for the new reactor. Last fall the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a notice of violation to DTE for failing to have a plan to ensure that work done [...]
The Entergy corporation’s Palisades nuclear power plant, which sits along Lake Michigan five miles south of South Haven, will remain on the list of facilities that require extra supervision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after an annual safety inspection revealed ongoing problems with human error, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports. NRC spokeswoman Viktoria Mytling told the [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has asked the National Academy of Sciences to research the cancer risk associated with living near a nuclear power plant, the Institute for Southern Studies reports. The Commission said that “recurrent stakeholder requests” prompted the request for new research.
Plans to create a long-term high-level nuclear waste storage site along Lake Erie at DTE Energy’s Fermi power-generating complex in Monroe County have triggered safety concerns by area residents who warn that the spent fuel could be vulnerable to accident or attack. So far federal regulators have dismissed their calls for enhanced oversight.
The Michigan Dept. of Community Health announced today that beginning Oct. 1 it will offer a free one day supply of potassium iodide tablets to people who spend time within ten miles of the state’s three nuclear power plants. In the unlikely event of a nuclear power plant incident, a radioactive iodine release could occur. [...]
Construction of a new nuclear power plant in Michigan could cost the state jobs, according to Peter Bradford, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner who toured the state last month.
“No state has ever succeeded in improving its jobs picture by building unnecessarily expensive power plants,“ he said in a phone interview. “The reason is the impact of high rate on the customers in commercial and industrial class.”
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