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 Congressional investigation has revealed that oil and gas service companies are violating the Safe Drinking Water Act federal by pumping diesel into the ground as part of the fracking process.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will not require the Kennecott Eagle Mineral Co. to get a federal permit for the waste water system at its planned nickel mine in the Upper Peninsula.
A new round of natural gas exploration in Northern Michigan, sparked by the development of a controversial new drilling technique that has yielded good results for the Encana corporation, is prompting serious concerns about potential damage to ground and surface waters.
The multi-billion dollar bottled water industry, which has major operations in Michigan, has gone to great lengths to market its product as clean, healthy and superior to other water. But at a congressional hearing led by U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak of Menominee earlier this week, a representative for the Government Accountability Office confirmed what water activists have been saying for years: Bottled water has less oversight than water from municipal systems.
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