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 buried oil pipeline owned by Exxon ruptured late last week, sending up to 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana. The cleanup and containment is being complicated by the river being above flood stage and flowing rapidly.
Recent aerial photos published by the Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality show that oil from last summer’s Enbridge pipeline spill in Marshall is still present in Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
The company responsible for Michigan’s largest oil spill announced this week that it will increase payments to shareholders by 15 percent.
Despite public promises to compensate residents for losses associated with the summer oil spill, in Calhoun county court Enbridge is arguing that it is not legally liable for damages from the spill.
When Enbridge’s Lakehead 6B pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into the river that runs through the heart of Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-St. Joseph) district last year, the congressman pledged aggressive action to protect the Great Lakes ecosystem.
A Wisconsin man has been arrested and charged with a felony and three misdemeanors after boats that he owned dumped an estimated 30 gallons of diesel fuel into Lake Michigan’s Duncan Bay off Cheboygan.
Enbridge Energy Partners LLC has increased by 3 percent its estimate of how much oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River after a pipeline ruptured in Marshall in July.
General Motors has announced that specific plastic parts of the Chevy Volt — a plug-in hybrid electric car — will be manufactured with recycled oil boom from the gulf oil spill disaster, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Hundreds of people who live and work near Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River experienced headaches, trouble breathing, and nausea or vomiting after an Enbridge oil pipeline spilled an estimated million gallons of heavy tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River this summer.
The federal agency responsible for oversight of the nation’s oil and gas pipelines has issued an advisory bulletin reminding pipeline operators that they need to make their emergency response plans available to local emergency response officials. Such information sharing is necessary, the agency said, because many pipelines go through public areas.
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