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.
It looks like those who have concerns about the permitting process for the proposed Fermi 3 nuclear power station are facing an uphill battle to have their worries considered by federal regulatory officials. A coalition that includes Monroe County residents and nuclear watchdog groups has put together 15 environmental and safety concerns they’d like to discuss as part of an upcoming Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hearing on the plan to expand DTE Energy’s Fermi nuclear complex in Frenchtown Township. But in order for these issues to be raised at the May 5 hearing, they must be approved by the ASLB. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and DTE Energy are urging the board to disregard virtually all of the coalition’s concerns.
An incident involving a nuclear reactor going into “hot shutdown” at DTE Energy’s Fermi II power generation station in Monroe County late last month went largely unnoticed locally and is raising questions about what exactly happened at the plant. DTE officials have minimized the incident, stressing that it’s dangerous to make assumptions about the safety of the reactor following the situation where high vibrations from a bearing in the plant’s main turbine caused operators to manually switch the reactor into shutdown.
Coalition cites Michigan Messenger’s reporting in analysis of health concerns; state health official responds, promises to investigate cancer pattern in Monroe County
Before the Michigan House of Representatives could put pen to paper on the new energy bill that passed the House last Thursday (and that was heavily lobbied for by state utilities), The Monroe Evening News reported that Detroit Edison had already applied for a permit for a second possible nuclear plant in Monroe County along [...]
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 [...]
The Fermi 2 nuclear reactor in Monroe was shut down on Thursday afternoon after two water pumps stopped functioning. Fermi 2 is a General Electric boiling water reactor, owned by DTE Energy. The plant is 23 years old and generates 1089 megawatts of electricity when functioning at full power. “The cause of the reactor recirc [...]
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