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Authorities have now determined that 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from a cargo ship into Lake Michigan, after it was breached earlier this month.
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Local, state, and federal agencies conduct exercises based on worst case scenarios of petroleum spills into the Great Lakes.
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A two-mile trail of diesel fuel that spilled into Lake Michigan earlier this week has dissipated. Officials are still monitoring the area, but clean-up efforts have halted.
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Crews spent Wednesday working to contain a significant spill on the Flint River, stretching absorbent booms across the river.
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The worst oil spill into an inland waterway in U.S. history happened right here in Michigan, 10 years ago. It happened on a Sunday evening: 5:58 p.m. on…
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Opponents of the Line 5 pipeline staged a protest in downtown Lansing nine years to the day after one of the worst oil spills in the midwest.On July 25,…
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Two advocacy groups say the U.S. Coast Guard doesn't have an adequate strategy for dealing with oil spills in the channel linking Lakes Huron and…
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Experts predict that a worst-case scenario leak of an old oil pipeline where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet would cost nearly $2 billion.The state of…
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has sued the company he says damaged electric cables and oil pipelines in a Great Lakes channel by dragging a…
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Michigan's two senators called Friday for temporarily shutting down twin oil pipelines in a sensitive Great Lakes waterway that may have been damaged by a…