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.
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.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has repeatedly lowered standards in order to allow the nation’s aging nuclear power plants to continue operating.
Friends of the Earth , the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility have filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding U.S. government data on radiation releases from the Fukushima nuclear complex.
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’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 50 control room operators at DTE Energy’s Fermi nuclear plant are supposed to have their senses of smell and touch tested every six years when their licenses come up for renewal but DTE stopped conducting these tests in 1999, Tom Henry of the Toledo Blade reports. Smell and touch are considered important to an […]
Last summer a Chinese-made ECKO brand cheese grater set off radiation sensors at a Flint scrap yard and state regulators were stumped as to how radioactive cobalt-60 had made its way into the kitchen tool. It turns out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy have encouraged the recycling of radioactive metals for […]
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