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In today’s Aabitoose we hear from Sierra Club and Minnesota 350.org attorney Paul Blackburn, who discusses leaky pipelines, bomb trains, and a proposal to ship oil by tanker on Lake Superior. Honor the Earth, Sierra Club, and Minnesota 350 have...

by Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog, March 28, 2014 Photo Credit: U.S. EPA Is it conventional crude or tar sands? That is the question. And it's one with high stakes, to boot.  The BP Whiting refinery in Indiana spilled between 470 and 1228 gallons...

The Kalamazoo River oil spill occurred in July 2010 when a pipeline operated by Enbridge (Line 6B) burst and flowed into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. The pipeline carries diluted bitumen (dilbit), a heavy crude oil from Canada...

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News The wild grass is only now beginning to hide the scar left by the giant ditch digger that gouged a trench though Ron Kardos’ Oceola Township, Michigan, pasture last year for an oil pipeline — but already Kardos...

LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — It starts with a split in a 20-inch pipe 200 feet below the Straits of Mackinac. Twenty-four hours later, a slick has formed, leaving the shores of Lakes Huron and Michigan coated in oil. Mackinac Island is a disaster zone, and...