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. House of Representatives has approved a bill that authorizes the transfer of 2,400 acres of Arizona federal forest land to the UK and Australia-based mining company, Rio Tinto.
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council are suing the state for issuing an air permit for a coal-burning power generation facility planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City.
To mark the first anniversary of when Enbridge formally notified the federal government that an estimated one million gallons of crude oil had been released into the Kalamazoo River watershed, environmentalists are calling on two Republican congressman to stop political attacks aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Fracking companies will be required to document their water use and regulators will publish some information about the chemicals used in the fracking process under rules announced Wednesday by the state Dept. of Environmental Quality.
Michigan State University, the nation’s premier land grant college, built a central heating system in 1890 after fireplaces proved a risky way to heat school buildings. Now a student group is trying to convince the school that powering that plant with coal poses unacceptable health and environmental risks.
The Sierra Club will launch a new campaign against the use of tar sands oil imported from Canada, the same kind of thick crude that was flowing through Enbridge’s Lakehead 6B pipeline when it burst in July and spewed a million gallons into the Kalamazoo River. The campaign is called “Faces of Tar Sands” and [...]
While Tim Walberg has the enormous spending of the American Future Fund on his side in his fight to regain the seat he lost in Congress in 2008, his opponent, Rep. Mark Schauer, is getting some help from a third-party group as well — the Sierra Club. The venerable environmental group is not going to [...]
About 30 students gathered at the famous rock near Michigan State University’s auditorium Thursday morning. They were there to protest MSU’s TB Simon coal-generated power plant, the largest coal plant on any U.S. campus in the United States. “A lot of people don’t even know MSU is behind in the clean energy game,” says student [...]
A coalition of Great Lakes conservation groups is asking President Obama to appoint a “federal incident commander” to coordinate the federal response to the threat posed to the Great Lakes by invasive Asian carp. Last week months of positive Asian carp DNA samples were confirmed when a 20 lb. Bighead Asian carp was caught in [...]
A GOP plan to raise money by logging more of the state forest has been abandoned for lack of support.
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