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.
Elevated levels of chemicals have been detected in water samples from residential wells near the site of Enbridge Energy’s million gallon oil spill in Calhoun County. Kalamazoo County health officials say that trace amounts of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and
Fresh on the heels of the Calhoun County oil spill that spewed a million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River and another oil spill in Illinois on the same pipeline, the Coast Guard reports that it is responding to an oil leak in Cheboygan State Park and Duncan Bay on Lake Huron.
Despite recent accidents and warnings from environmental groups and a local lawmaker, the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment has given the OK for underwater oil pipeline work by Enbridge Energy Partners at the Straits of Mackinac.
Lakehead Pipeline 6A has been cleared to return to service, after a rupture last week spilled an estimated 6,000 gallons of crude oil on a roadway, into the sewer system and into a retention pond in Romeoville, Illinois, reports CBS Lansing affiliate WLNS. The line is owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, which also owns a [...]
A coalition of state environmental groups is asking Michigan regulators to require that Enbridge shut down and flush the pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac before the company begins needed maintenance work on the line.
Kevin O’Connor, spokesperson for Enbridge Energy Partners, says last week seven employees of Garner Environmental were dispatched to Romeoville, Illinois to assist in the oil spill clean up there. Enbridge, O’Connor said, was unaware of the move by Garner, which he said was Enbridge’s emergency responder in events involving oil spills. The seven workers left [...]
Gas prices, already on the upswing, could rise 30 cents a gallon as a consequence of recent leaks in the pipelines that bring Canadian oil to the U.S., experts say. U.S. oil imports from Canada have been significantly disrupted by the shutdown of most of Enbridge Energy’s Lakehead pipeline system which supplies about 70 percent [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that oil is continuing to flow from an Enbridge oil pipeline in the western Chicago suburb of Romeoville. In a statement this afternoon the agency said:
Enbridge’s 6A pipeline has been shutdown following a leak this afternoon in the Chicago suburb of Romeoville. Line 6A carries crude oil from Superior, Wisconsin to Griffith, Indiana. The 6B pipeline which runs from Griffith, Indiana to Sarnia, Ontario has been shut down since a July 26th rupture on the line spilled around a million [...]
Oil spill cleanup workers are alleging that Garner Environmental — a key contractor for Enbridge Energy Partners — is instructing those who work for them to cover up oil-soaked areas rather than clean them up.
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