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.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has announced a plan to work with General Electric to remove radioactive material from the wastewater generated by fracking.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrong to cut monitoring for radiation with the nuclear disaster in Japan still unfolding, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said this week.
Though radiation sampling in recent weeks has shown fallout from Fukushima in rain, drinking water and milk, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it is returning to its regular program of quarterly sampling.
Last summer a Chinese-made ECKO brand cheese grater set off radiation sensors at a Flint scrap yard and state regulators were stumped as to how radioactive cobalt-60 had made its way into the kitchen tool. It turns out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy have encouraged the recycling of radioactive metals for [...]
Last year a Chinese-made EKCO brand cheese grater set off radiation alarms at a Flint scrap yard — it was emitting the equivalent of a chest X-ray every 36 hours. A new investigative piece published by the Scripps Howard News Service explores official responses to the discovery of the radioactive cheese grater and finds that [...]
Childhood leukemia rates are higher for kids who live near old nuclear power plants. Janette Sherman MD of the Environmental Institute at Western Michigan University and Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project are authors of “Childhood Leukaemia Near Nuclear Installations” published in the current edition of the European Journal of Cancer Care.
Before the Michigan House of Representatives could put pen to paper on the new energy bill that passed the House last Thursday (and that was heavily lobbied for by state utilities), The Monroe Evening News reported that Detroit Edison had already applied for a permit for a second possible nuclear plant in Monroe County along [...]
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