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 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City has been denied an air permit by the state Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment, Governor Granholm announced today. Granholm said that the state’s decision was based on a Michigan Public Service Commission analysis that found [...]
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) has warned Governor Granhom that delays in approving permits for a proposed petroleum coke-fired power plant in Rogers City could threatened federal funds associated with the project. State environmental officials have been considering an air permit application by Wolverine Power since Sept. 2008. Last year in a February executive order [...]
Wolverine Power Cooperative is still waiting to see whether state regulators will allow it to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke-fired power plant in Rogers City, but the company has gone ahead and purchased a 340 megawatt natural gas-fired plant in Wayne County. The plant is located in Sumpter, was built in 2002 by FirstEnergy [...]
A continuing decline in demand for electricity may work against Wolverine Power Cooperative’s bid to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke fired power plant along the shore of Lake Huron, Glenn Puit of the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service reports.
A permit for a controversial petroleum coke-fired power plant planned for Rogers City has come under renewed scrutiny because of reports of a conflict of interest by the chairman of the Presque Isle County Board of Commissioners.
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