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 Michigan Public Service Commission has approved a DTE Energy plan to meet renewable energy goals by buying power from a wood-burning biomass plant in the Upper Peninsula and landfill gas from the Eagle Valley Landfill in Oakland County. According to DTE:
Traverse City’s municipal utility has decided to step away from plans to build a wood-fired power plant as part of an effort to reach a goal of 30 percent renewable energy by 2020. Traverse City Light & Power executive director Ed Rice said that the TCLP board has decided to “curtail any detailed analysis” of [...]
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 [...]
After months of public hearings and intense debate Traverse City’s municipal utility decided to move ahead with plans to develop a wood-burning power plant, but plans for the new facility hit a serious hurdle this week when Traverse Light & Power learned that the plant could not be built at the utility’s preferred location because [...]
Traverse City Light & Power, the public utility that supplies power to that area, sent out a press release this morning about a public survey they apparently commissioned from the Northwest Michigan College Research Services department. You can read the full survey here (PDF). The survey was about what customers of the company valued most [...]
In response to community opposition to plans to build wood-fired power plants in Traverse City the municipally owned power company held a series of forums last month to gather public input on how best to generate power. Traverse City Light and Power promised to analyze and publicly respond to community concerns before settling on a [...]
Biomass electricity generation is being touted as renewable energy with benefits for the state economy, but a comparison between a proposed wood-burning plant in Mancelona and a recently permitted coal-fired plant near Bay City shows that wood-burning plants can emit more of some harmful pollutants.
Traverse City has dismantled its bayside coal plant, and its publicly owned electricity utility has committed itself to finding environmentally friendly ways of meeting the city’s power needs. But plans to buy land for a future biomass power plant were put on hold this week after citizens raised concerns about the potential human health and [...]
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