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.
KALAMAZOO — A day after officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discussed the next phase of work to remove soil and sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the Kalamazoo River near the city of Plainwell, the agency made the project official on Tuesday.
Updated, June 9, 3:38 p.m.
PLAINWELL — It might seem like just a small-scale cleanup in a gargantuan overall project to rid the Kalamazoo River of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, but state and federal environmental officials are hailing the next step in the cleanup of the river as the kind of sustained progress that has been sought for decades.
The yet-to-be announced $10 million project will take place at and behind a diversion dam about 2 miles upstream from Plainwell, which is about 10 miles north of Kalamazoo, said Jim Saric, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
KALAMAZOO — Federal environmental officials announced recently an agreement with Georgia-Pacific Corp. to begin work on capping a Kalamazoo Township landfill filled with material laden with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, part of a federal Superfund cleanup of the Kalamazoo River.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s dredging of PCBs from New York’s Hudson River is being watched by Michigan environmental groups concerned with dioxin in the Saginaw River watershed as an envied example of the federal government taking action on a long-stalled case. A recent story in The New York Times shows some important differences between [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans last week to use federal stimulus funding to accelerate a PCB contamination clean-up project in Massachusetts that involves shipping polluted sediments to Michigan for storage.
Money from the federal stimulus package will accelerate a plan to clean up PCB-contaminated New Bedford Harbor in Massachusetts by dredging contaminated soil and shipping it to Michigan, the Boston Globe reports. The additional money will allow a massive “dewatering” facility on the harbor to operate continuously eight months a year, instead of the 40-45 [...]
KALAMAZOO — Be patient: That’s the message from federal environmental regulators to advocates and stakeholders pressing for the cleanup of hundreds of thousands of pounds of sediment and soil in the Kalamazoo River contaminated with harmful polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a remnant of the papermaking industry that flourished along the river for most of the 20th century.
People who eat a lot of fish from Lake Michigan are less contaminated with PCBs and DDT because they are eating fewer of the most contaminated fatty fish, according to research by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Environmental Health News reports that sport fisherman and boat captains who consume large quantities of Great Lakes [...]
Do you know where to vote on Election Day? Do you know what to bring with you? Get comprehensive voter information for your state here.
Sign up for our email newsletter