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 Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council are suing the state for issuing an air permit for a coal-burning power generation facility planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City.
The state Dept. of Environmental Quality announced today that it has approved an air permit for a 600-megawatt coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative in Rogers City.
People in tourism-dependent northern Michigan should have more opportunity to weigh in on Wolverine Power Cooperative’s plan to rely on area forests for part of the fuel for a power plant in Rogers City, a Traverse City-based group said this week.
In order to get just five percent of its energy from biomass the 600 megawatt power plant planned by Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City will burn 255,000 tons of freshly cut Northern Michigan trees each year.
A dozen state environmental and energy groups are asking governor-elect Rick Snyder to maintain the Granholm administration’s policy on permits for coal plants.
Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Jon Van Allsburg has ordered the state to reconsider its denial of an air permit for the expansion of the James DeYoung coal-fired power plant in Holland.
The Missaukee Circuit Court has granted Attorney General Mike Cox permission to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Wolverine Power Cooperative which claims that the state did not have the authority to deny an air permit for a coal plant planned for Rogers City.
Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state for denying an air permit for a coal and petroleum coke plant planned for Rogers City. In a case that is scheduled to be heard in Missaukee Circuit Court next week the power company is asking the court to reverse the permit denial and overturn Governor Granholm’s Feb. [...]
The Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state of Michigan for denying an air permit for a coal-fired power plant the company planned to build in Rogers City.
In May the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment denied an air permit for a 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City stating that the plant was not necessary and would drive up electricity rates. Now Wolverine has filed suit against the state [...]
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