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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a special investigation team to Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant to examine the circumstances around the plant’s latest unplanned shutdown.
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.
Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant near South Haven has been operating at about half power since an electrical problem caused a cooling tower to stop functioning on Saturday.
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 […]
The Michigan Dept. of Community Health announced today that beginning Oct. 1 it will offer a free one day supply of potassium iodide tablets to people who spend time within ten miles of the state’s three nuclear power plants. In the unlikely event of a nuclear power plant incident, a radioactive iodine release could occur. […]
Childhood leukemia rates are higher for kids who live near old nuclear power plants. Janette Sherman MD of the Environmental Institute at Western Michigan University and Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project are authors of “Childhood Leukaemia Near Nuclear Installations” published in the current edition of the European Journal of Cancer Care.
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