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.
As Georgia-Pacific continues to fight environmental groups and the state Department of Environmental Protection over the waste that it dumps into Florida’s rivers and streams, the paper company may be headed for similarly-heated battles elsewhere.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced on Tuesday that it has begun cleanup work on an abandoned zinc electroplating facility in Albion, Michigan that has been designated as a federal Superfund site. The cleanup is expected to cost a million dollars. The former Pickens Plating site was abandoned after the company declared bankruptcy [...]
A portion of St. Clair Shores that has had a 10-year battle with PCB contamination in surface and ground waters has been officially designated by the EPA as a Superfund site. Superfund status makes federal dollars available for testing and cleanup. The original source of the PCBs here have never been found and that will [...]
Sludge samples taken from the canals of St. Clair Shores this year show dangerous levels of PCB contamination and indicate that the canal system is being recontaminated as state and federal officials work to clean it up, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Lyondell, the bankrupt chemical company that is liable for cleanup costs associated with removing PCBs from the Kalamazoo River, should not be allowed to use bankruptcy reorganization to shirk responsibility for paying for cleanup Michigan lawmakers told the U.S. Dept. of Justice today. In a letter to DOJ Assistant Attorney General Moreno, Sen. Carl Levin [...]
The chemical company LyondellBasell, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last January, has offered to pay the federal government $250 million for environmental cleanup at several sites including an 80 mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River that is contaminated with PCBs, Chris Killian reports in the Kalamazoo Gazette. The PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) contamination of [...]
PCB contamination around the canals in St. Clair Shores is more severe and more widespread than previously thought, the Detroit News reports. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of toxic compounds that were used in manufacturing but banned in the U.S. in the 1970s. Exposure to PCBs has been linked to a broad range of [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the Gratiot County Golf Course to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, and is inviting the public to comment on the proposed action. The St. Louis site is among three contaminated areas that Gov. Jennifer Granholm recently asked EPA to add to the National Priorities List. [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to add three contaminated Michigan sites to the National Priorities or Superfund list. The sites in question are the Du-Well Hartford site in Van Buren County, a former plating company where solvents have leached in the soil and groundwater; the St. Clair Shores drain site [...]
Detailed information about a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency strategy for addressing dioxin contamination in the Saginaw Bay watershed is expected at a community meeting in Saginaw on Wednesday evening.
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