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.
Upper Peninsula lawmakers that oppose a ballot measure to regulate uranium and sulfide mines have failed to recognize that protecting Michigan’s water is essential to maintaining the U.P.’s tourism industry, according to Save the Wild UP, and have instead become “the mouthpiece for pro-mining propaganda.” Earlier this week, Sen. Mike Prusi (D-Ishpeming), Sen. Jason Allen [...]
Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), the global mining corporation fighting to build a nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula near Marquette, is now reviewing its expansion plans in light of upheavals in global markets, according to a report published today on MetalBulletin.com.
The appeal of Department of Environmental Quality permits issued for an Upper Peninsula sulfide mine wrapped up a fourth week on Friday with testimony from David Stone, a mining engineer for the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company. In response to questions from National Wildlife Federation attorney Michelle Halley, Stone said that he did not know whether [...]
Professors from a dozen public universities in Michigan are calling on the governor and the Department of Natural Resources to consider ethical reasons to oppose plans for a nickel-sulfide mine on public land in the Upper Peninsula. On Dec. 14, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved a permit for a Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company [...]
The Department of Environmental Quality has announced it requires up to 30 additional days to consider materials related to the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company’s proposal to mine nickel and copper in the Yellow Dog Plains in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. According to the Marquette Mining Journal, DEQ Director Steven Chester said the delay is due to [...]
The official public comment period for the Kennecott Mineral Company’s sulfide mine proposal ended last Wednesday, but people have not stopped commenting about the plan to drill and mine nickel and copper in the Yellow Dog Plain, a pristine natural area in the Upper Peninsula. Saturday night at an EarthWork Music Collective concert held in [...]
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