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.
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) has warned Governor Granhom that delays in approving permits for a proposed petroleum coke-fired power plant in Rogers City could threatened federal funds associated with the project. State environmental officials have been considering an air permit application by Wolverine Power since Sept. 2008. Last year in a February executive order [...]
Consumers Energy and Wolverine Power have failed to demonstrate a need for the coal-fired power plants they propose to build in Bay City and Rogers City, the Michigan Public Service Commission said in a report issued Tuesday. Unless it retires some of its existing fleet of power plants, which is not an explicit part of it’s proposal, Consumers Energy won’t need any additional generating capacity until 2020 the Public Service Commission found.
Proposals for new coal power plants in Michigan face not only opposition from environmentalists but also tough new requirements from the banks they need for financing. Now that it’s clear that all the top contenders for the U.S. presidency favor addressing climate change, banks have developed a new set of guidelines that require energy intensive [...]
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