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 Congressional deficit reduction “supercommittee” that has been charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving could save billions by eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for oil and gas companies, which advocacy groups from across the ideological spectrum support, but energy companies are battling to keep their good deals.
Rep. Kenneth B. Horn (R-Frankenmuth) is pro-choice when it comes to light bulbs. Horn, chair of the House Energy and Technology Committee, cosponsored legislation to allow Michigan to make incandescent bulbs despite a federal phase out that begins with a prohibition on 100-watt bulbs next year.
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.
A federal judge has decided that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can’t sue DTE Energy for failing to install pollution control equipment at the company’s Monroe plant during an equipment upgrade last year.
A quarter of the cuts required under the recent Congressional debt deal could be beneficially achieved through cuts to environmentally harmful federal subsidies, according to a report produced by a politically diverse coalition.
The Grand Traverse County Planning Commission has voted 4-3 to remove references to greenhouse gases from the county’s plan for energy savings and climate action to indicate their disbelief in climate change induced by human activities. “My issue is from a local board level I don’t want to lend any legitimacy to something I see […]
DTE Energy has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the company to operate the Fermi 2 nuclear plant until 2045.
In a study that could cause the U.S. to rethink its designation of biomass as green energy, Australian scientists have found that living forests soak up far more carbon dioxide than previously thought.
Opponents of a Duke Energy proposal to place 112 wind turbines near the lakeshore in Benzie and Manistee Counties argue that it will hurt the local tourism-based economy by destroying the view. Writing for the Great Lakes News Bulletin Glenn Puitt surveys communities with big wind projects and finds that some are drawing many new […]
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.
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