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.
Entergy’s Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven on Lake Michigan is venting radioactive steam into the environment as part of an unplanned shutdown triggered by an electrical accident.
The earthquake that hit Virginia and much of the east coast yesterday was felt at Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant, where a federal regulator has warned that the spent fuel storage is vulnerable to damage from quakes.
For the last 18 years environmental groups in Michigan have been warning that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has weakened or ignored safety rules in order to allow the Palisades nuclear power plant to keep operating, and a new study seems to support that contention.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the time it is taking to consider license renewal applications from aging nuclear power plants.
Palisades nuclear power plant is returning to the grid today after an electrical problem forced the plant to cut power for the second time this month.
Entergy Nuclear, was forced to shut down nuclear plants in New York and Vermont this week because of a transformer explosion and a leak of radioactive water. Kevin Kamps, of the nuclear watchdog group Beyond Nuclear, writes that both incidents are likely connected to age-related degradation of plant systems and deferred maintenance and he warns […]
Entergy, the Louisiana-based corporation that owns a Michigan nuclear power plant where radioactive tritium was recently detected in on-site groundwater, owns at least two other plants where tritium leaks have occurred and was fined by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a defective warning system this year. Concerned citizens are demanding enhanced monitoring of ground […]
Radioactive contamination has been detected in a recently installed monitoring well at the Palisades nuclear power plant, which is located on the shore of Lake Michigan near the city of South Haven and is owned and operated by Entergy. Groundwater samples taken Monday evening showed tritium contamination at a concentration of 22,000 picoCuries per liter, […]
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