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 Holland Board of Public Works’ plan to develop a new 70-megawatt coal-fired power plant fails to consider alternative and more cost effective ways of meeting the need for energy, the Michigan Public Service Commission announced yesterday. MPSC also stated the plan relies on “overly optimistic” projections about demand growth.
A 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City has been denied an air permit by the state Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment, Governor Granholm announced today. Granholm said that the state’s decision was based on a Michigan Public Service Commission analysis that found [...]
Wolverine Power Cooperative is still waiting to see whether state regulators will allow it to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke-fired power plant in Rogers City, but the company has gone ahead and purchased a 340 megawatt natural gas-fired plant in Wayne County. The plant is located in Sumpter, was built in 2002 by FirstEnergy [...]
State environmental groups are urging Michigan House lawmakers to reject a Senate bill that would make it easier for electric utilities to develop coal plants.
A continuing decline in demand for electricity may work against Wolverine Power Cooperative’s bid to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke fired power plant along the shore of Lake Huron, Glenn Puit of the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service reports.
The area around Wolverine Power Cooperative’s planned coal plant in Rogers City features unique limestone geology with sinkholes and unpredictable groundwater flow. State officials and environmental professionals have warned that this leaky limestone geology makes landfills especially dangerous. Glenn Puit of the Great Lakes Environmental News Service reports that despite warnings about the risk to [...]
A dozen environmental groups are asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to take a hard look at a analysis submitted by Wolverine Power Cooperative in support of its proposal to build a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Rogers City. “Electricity co-op customers in the Western Upper Peninsula learned recently that they will be hit [...]
A permit for a controversial petroleum coke-fired power plant planned for Rogers City has come under renewed scrutiny because of reports of a conflict of interest by the chairman of the Presque Isle County Board of Commissioners.
A report commissioned by a group fighting the development of a new coal-fired power plant in Rogers City finds that increasing transportation costs for coal will force the Wolverine Power Cooperative to double its utility rates when the planned plant goes on line. The economic analysis of the proposed plant, which was done by Tom [...]
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