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.
As the President considers whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a Republican bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would prohibit regulators from implementing safety rules recommended by the National Transporation Safety Board.
The company that is seeking permission to build a new crude oil pipeline between Canada and the U.S. Gulf Coast has wildly underestimated the damage that could occur in a worst case spill scenario, a University of Nebraska researcher warned this week.
The House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials will hold a hearing Thursday about the leak from an ExxonMobil pipeline near Billings, Montana on July 1.
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation gave notice this week that it has begun considering whether to grant the Canadian company Bruce Power permission to move 16 radioactively contaminated steam generators through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.
As the Canadian nuclear power company Bruce Power plans to ship 16 decommissioned radioactive steam generators through the Great Lakes, the nuclear watchdog group Beyond Nuclear is asking the federal government to conduct a full programmatic review of water-borne shipments of radioactive waste.
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes.
The Detroit Free Press editorialized on Tuesday that the state of Michigan should take over direct regulation of oil pipelines in the state from the federal government, something many other states already do. Michigan already regulates natural gas pipelines in the state but allows the federal government, specifically the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, [...]
Enbridge Energy announced Thursday during a press briefing that it planned to restart the Lakehead Pipeline 6B on Monday Sept. 27, with one caveat — they are awaiting final approval from federal regulators.
At least four people are dead in San Bruno, Calif., after a natural gas pipeline break caused an explosion that leveled dozens of homes and damaged many others. Quite a few questions remain about what caused the explosion and details are still unfolding. But the explosion will likely bring more attention to the issue of pipeline [...]
The Warren, Pennsylvania-based United Refining Co. is warning that gasoline consumers in New York and Pennsylvania may face supply problems if the shutdown of Enbridge’s troubled Michigan pipeline continues. This week federal regulators rejected a plan for restarting the pipeline because they said it lacked specific “technical detail” or “adequate steps to permit a conclusion [...]
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