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.
Climate change and heavy demand could result in water shortages in the Great Lakes region, a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey warns.
Patty Birkholz of Saugatuck Township, until recently the most prominent Republican environmental advocate in the legislature, has been tapped by Governor Snyder to direct the state Office of the Great Lakes.
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary, Kennecott, is building a nickel sulfide mine west of Marquette, has earned a reputation for a willingness to cut corners on safety and environmental safeguards, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) warned in an op-ed distributed across northern Michigan over the weekend. Stupak, who chairs of the House [...]
Reps. John Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Vern Ehlers (R-Grand Rapids), together with Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) have introduced a House bill that would restore Clean Water Act protections weakened by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and guidance from the Bush administration. America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act (H.R. 5088), introduced Wednesday, will legislatively override the effect [...]
A Dow Chemical sponsored “Run for Water” event in New York yesterday was undermined by people dressed up like zombies and kids shouting “Dow kills children!” according to an account by the Yes Men.
Though it’s received almost no news coverage, and few seem aware of it, the U.S. and Canada are in the process of renegotiating a longstanding diplomatic agreement on Great Lakes water protection. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was first signed by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and President Nixon in 1972, and was revised in [...]
Bottled water is more expensive than tap water, is subject to less stringent safety checks, and involves energy intensive packaging and shipping. For these reasons, The Grand Rapids Press reports, the city of Grand Rapids plans to adopt a resolution ending the purchase and distribution of bottled water at city events. New York City, San [...]
Language for a ballot measure that would restrict mining activities in Michigan has been approved by a state election board, AP reports. Michigan Save Our Water Committee, the group organizing the ballot initiative, says on its website that it plans to collect 400,000 signatures by May 2010 so that the measure to restrict sulfide and [...]
The municipal water systems for Bay City, Saginaw and Midland are slated to be screened for dioxin next week as part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effort to address citizen concerns that ongoing navigational dredging in the Saginaw River threatens the region’s water supplies.
As a resident of the infamous Niagara Falls, N.Y., neighborhood Love Canal in the 1970s, Lois Gibbs led the fight to clean up dioxin contamination and relocate people who were being exposed to it. Now she is warning that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to spend more time reviewing its decades-old draft report on the human health effects of dioxin is the misguided continuation of a plan established by the administration of former President George W. Bush.
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