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.
Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation.
U.S. nuclear development, already slowed by a lack of private investment, seems likely to be further stalled by the political fallout from the Fukushima disaster in Japan. How fast this slowdown will lead to more renewables is an open question.
The Province of Ontario has announced that it will wait on further scientific study of offshore wind farms before moving forward with controversial plans to install large scale windmills in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.
A state program to reduce the need for new power plants by promoting more efficient use of energy is working even better than expected according to the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Energy issues dominated the environment reporting here this year as Michigan struggled with the ecological costs of power generation and the proper regulation of the means of power generation.
Michigan failed to properly consider the environmental impact of an Upper Peninsula project that plans to turn 560,000 tons of pulpwood into ethanol each year, the Sierra Club stated in a lawsuit filed this week.
The New York Times ran a great story Sunday on the elephant in the room when it comes to renewable energy: cost.
In May the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment denied an air permit for a 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City stating that the plant was not necessary and would drive up electricity rates. Now Wolverine has filed suit against the state [...]
Traverse City’s municipally owned utility company has hired a firm to study the potential health impacts of a proposed $30 million wood-fired power plant. “We’ve been hearing from a lot of other people, what they think the public health aspects would be,” [Karen Feahrs of Traverse City Light and Power told Interlochen Public Radio,]“And we [...]
As Michigan continues to consider whether to support offshore wind turbine development, the wind power industry nationwide is losing strength because of increased development costs and lowered natural gas prices. The Dallas Morning News reports that according to the American Wind Energy Association only 539 new megawatts of wind power were added in the first [...]
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