A 110-foot barge and a 38-foot tugboat have sunk in Lake Huron, near the city of Port Huron. The barge is leaking diesel fuel.
“The vessel has between 1,...
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A new report says not enough is being done to protect the Great Lakes from oil spills from pipelines.
The National Wildlife Federation looked at federal and state...
On The Environment Report...
It's been a year since an oil spill forced people out of their homes and closed businesses along the Kalamazoo River. A year ago, the CEO of the oil company made a promise to compensate...
On the Environment Report...
It was the largest inland oil spill in Midwest history, and a year later no one really knows what it'll mean for the long-term health of wildlife around the Kalamazoo River.
This is the...
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One year after the Enbridge oil spill... crews are still cleaning tar sands oil out of the Kalamazoo River. We hear how life has changed for people along the river.
This is the first in a three...
Representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspected abandoned vessels still-afloat in Duncan Bay near Cheboygan.
The ferry Joelle AnnMarie and the tug...
Charges have been filed related to an oil slick that briefly closed a stretch of state park beach in Cheboygan this past October. Scotland Stivers, of Superior...
From Staff Reports
The state announced an agreement today with the company responsible for an 800,000 gallon oil spill on the Kalamazoo River. A pipeline operated by Enbridge Energy failed, causing the spill back in July.
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From Staff Reports
Oil leaking from the motor of a tug is the source of a slick discovered earlier this month at the Cheboygan State Park beach.
The U.S. Coast Guard has cleaned up the oil spill on Duncan Bay, and it...
The U.S. Coast Guard says cleanup of an oil spill on the beach at Cheboygan State Park is 90 percent complete. The safety zone around the spill has been lifted, but...
