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.
On or about July 25, the Enbridge Energy Lakehead Pipeline 6B, which carries an estimated eight million gallons of oil a day across much of southern Michigan up to Sarnia, Ontario, suffered a six and a half foot rupture which spewed over one million gallons into the marsh land surrounding the pipeline, eventually reaching Talmadge [...]
MARSHALL — Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency as well as Enbridge Energy Partners announced Saturday cleanup crews have partially excavated the pipeline which is the source of nearly one million gallons of crude oil being dumped into the Kalamazoo River. Mark Durno, deputy on-scene coordinator for the EPA, told reporters Saturday that the “breach” [...]
In a press briefing Wednesday night, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced that oil from the Enbridge pipeline spill has spread past Morrow Lake and its dam. The lake was identified by officials as a location they expected to stop the oil spill’s progress down the Kalamazoo River. The oil is now entering a region of the [...]
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