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.
Michigan health officials say no one should eat any lake trout from Lake Michigan because the fish contain dangerous levels of PCB, dioxins, and the now-banned pesticide chlordane.
As Georgia-Pacific continues to fight environmental groups and the state Department of Environmental Protection over the waste that it dumps into Florida’s rivers and streams, the paper company may be headed for similarly-heated battles elsewhere.
A portion of St. Clair Shores that has had a 10-year battle with PCB contamination in surface and ground waters has been officially designated by the EPA as a Superfund site. Superfund status makes federal dollars available for testing and cleanup. The original source of the PCBs here have never been found and that will [...]
In the last day many outlets have covered the plan, touted by Illinois governor Pat Quinn, to reduce the number of Asian carp in area water bodies by promoting the harvesting and export of the fish as food for the Chinese market. Missing from the discussion, it seems, is acknowledgment that carp are bottom-feeding fish [...]
Sludge samples taken from the canals of St. Clair Shores this year show dangerous levels of PCB contamination and indicate that the canal system is being recontaminated as state and federal officials work to clean it up, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Lyondell, the bankrupt chemical company that is liable for cleanup costs associated with removing PCBs from the Kalamazoo River, should not be allowed to use bankruptcy reorganization to shirk responsibility for paying for cleanup Michigan lawmakers told the U.S. Dept. of Justice today. In a letter to DOJ Assistant Attorney General Moreno, Sen. Carl Levin [...]
Lyondell Chemical Co. will pay $103 million to clean up PCB contamination in the Kalamazoo River and at the Allied landfill site in Kalamazoo under a settlement proposal announced by the Department of Justice this week, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
The chemical company LyondellBasell, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last January, has offered to pay the federal government $250 million for environmental cleanup at several sites including an 80 mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River that is contaminated with PCBs, Chris Killian reports in the Kalamazoo Gazette. The PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) contamination of [...]
PCB contamination around the canals in St. Clair Shores is more severe and more widespread than previously thought, the Detroit News reports. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of toxic compounds that were used in manufacturing but banned in the U.S. in the 1970s. Exposure to PCBs has been linked to a broad range of [...]
Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $10,000 so that the state of Michigan can post updated fish consumption advisory signs along the chemically contaminated Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers, warnings that the Midland-based company has balked at paying for previously.
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