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 220 acre pit where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dumps dioxin contaminated sediments from the Saginaw River has been given a pleasant new name.
A Canadian trucker was fined $50,000 this week for trying to take about four thousand pounds of live Asian carp into Canada via the Ambassador Bridge.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found new evidence that Asian carp are crossing the electric barrier that is supposed to keep the invasive fish from moving into Lake Michigan. The ACOE website shows that eDNA evidence of bighead and silver carp was found in the Des Plaines River close to Lake Michigan during [...]
Kennecott Eagle Minerals, the Rio Tinto subsidiary that is working to develop a nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains west of Marquette, has withdrawn its request for a permit to build a 22 mile long road to transport ore to a processing facility. The planned Woodland Road drew objections from the U.S. [...]
A six week long campaign of electro-fishing and netting along Chicago area rivers and canals has not turned up a single Asian carp, AP reports. The Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers began searching for the invasive fish around warm water outflows back [...]
Last week when the International Joint Commission hosted an Ypsilanti hearing on the federal framework for combating Asian carp, many of those who testified where the same Chicago area maritime workers that dominated the hearing held by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago earlier this month. The Chicago people, concerned that their upcoming boating [...]
U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland) has responded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to grant an injunction to close the locks in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal by introducing the CARP ACT (HR 4472) — Close All Routes and Prevent Asian Carp Today. “It is clear Asian Carp pose an immediate threat to the Great [...]
Yesterday, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a plea to prevent the spread of invasive Asian carp by closing the locks that connect the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal to Lake Michigan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that DNA from the carp had for the first time been detected in Lake [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court protect Great Lakes fisheries from invasive Asian carp by ordering the closure of the locks that connect the Mississippi River to the Lake Michigan drew opposition from the Obama administration this week, the AP reports. In a Jan. 5 brief Solicitor General Elena Kagan told [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports that there is evidence that the invasive Asian carp may have already breached an electrical barrier set up in a shipping canal in Chicago in order to keep the incredibly aggressive species from reaching the Great Lakes, where they would likely destroy the ecosystem and cause the extinction of native [...]
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