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We Must Shrink—Not Expand—Oil Infrastructure Like Line 5
Above: Oil pipelines make a mighty contribution to global warming, a fact that must be reflected in permit decisions like the one now being decided for Line 5. Conceptual photo of oil pipeline, by Rodion Kutsaev. Michiganders are united in their love of the Great...
FREE! Stream Videos From Our Recent Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit
Above photo: One of 70 speakers at the Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit, Bryan Lewis, executive director of EcoWorks, shared thoughts on the panel session "Cities and Communities Leading on Climate." It seems that with each passing week we read of yet...
Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline is now trespassing on Great Lakes bottomlands
The herculean citizen effort to protect the Great Lakes from a catastrophic Line 5 oil spill has reached a pivotal inflection point. May 12th was the deadline that Governor Whitmer set for revoking Enbridge’s easement to use the Great Lakes bottomlands, and the...