Congress to probe Michigan oil spill (Reuters)
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Reuters - A U.S. congressional committee will probe the spill of more than 800,000 gallons (3 million liters) of oil from an Enbridge Inc pipeline in southern Michigan this week, a Michigan congressman said on Saturday. ...

Pipe break that caused Michigan oil spill is found
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Officials say they've located the pipeline break that caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil to spew into a major river in southern Michigan. Oil spill - Michigan - Pipeline transport - Environment - Energy ...

Michigan Oil Spill Company Also Building Largest Solar Plant in North America
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Credit: First Solar . Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the recent oil spill in Michigan's Calhoun County near Marshall, just happens to also be behind construction of the largest photovoltaic solar energy facility in North America. ... Read the ...

Signs of oil spill recovery entering new phase (AP)
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AP - BP's new boss says it's time for a "scaleback" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal officials say there is no way the crude could reach the East Coast. And fishing areas are starting to reopen. ...

Gov: 'Significant progress' in Mich. oil cleanup (AP)
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AP - Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm says there has been "significant progress" in cleaning up an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River. ...

Michigan Oil Spill: Are pipelines really the safer option?
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In the 100 days since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the largest oil spill in US history, Big Oil and its supporters have been doing everything in their public relations power to convey the impression that what happened in the Gulf... ...

New BP boss says there will be ‘pullback’ in cleanup
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by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS—Incoming BP boss Bob Dudley vowed on Friday that the British energy giant would not abandon Gulf residents for years to come, as engineers fine-tuned plans to kill a ruptured well for good. Making his first trip ...

Correction: Michigan River-Oil Spill story (AP)
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AP - In stories July 28 and July 29 about an oil spill on the Kalamazoo River, The Associated Press reported erroneously how deep the oil would be if put in a walled-in football field. The roughly 800,000 gallons of oil would fill a walled-in footbal ...

The Week in Pictures: Solar Plane Sets New World Record, Pipeline Leak Pollutes Michigan River with Oil, and More (Slideshow)
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Here we go again... a pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy Partners has leaked 800,000-840,000 gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan. On a more positive note, the Zephyr solar plane finally landed this ...

Today's Climate: July 30, 2010
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EPA Says Michigan Spill Appears Contained (Reuters) Oil spilled from a pipeline in Michigan does not present a threat to the Great Lakes and the spill has been contained on a river about 50 miles inland from Lake Michigan, federal officials said on ...

Deception by dispersal; the great Gulf oil tragedy
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The pictures below were all recently taken on July 28, 2010, just off the Gulf coast of Grand Bayou near Barataria Bay. They were taken shortly after cleanup authorities announced major surface oil had been cleaned up. Yesterday,  Louisiana Gov. Bobb ...


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