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Are Great Lakes Emergency Responders ready for an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac?

by Mary Ellen Geist

At the 28th Annual “No Spills” Conference January 3 through the 5th, emergency responders throughout the Great Lakes Region gathered to discuss ways to protect the Great Lakes from spills of all kinds and discussed new ways to respond in the event of a hazardous material spill that would affect the Great Lakes and its tributaries.

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Chasing Fugitive Dust in Detroit

by Bill Kubota

The Motor City finds ‘political will’ for cleaner air.
The story starts in 2013, when residents living in Windsor, Ontario in Canada noticed big black piles of some kind of material along the Detroit shoreline south of downtown.
A truck arrives with more petcoke on Detroit’s waterfront in 2013. Photo courtesy Stephen Boyle, FuzzyTek Images
It turned out to be petroleum coke, or petcoke, a byproduct Canadian tar sands oil processed at the Marathon refinery in Southwest Detroit.

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Pipeline Safety Advisory Board gives thumbs up to resolutions calling for temporary shutdown of Line 5

by Mary Ellen Geist

At Monday’s Michigan Pipeline Safety Advisory Board meeting in Lansing, several board members expressed disappointment and even outrage at Governor Snyder’s announcement of a legal agreement he hammered out with […]