Kalamazoo Oil Spill: 10 Years Later

At protests in Lansing and other cities, activists were less focused on the events of 14 years ago than on the current fight over the future of Enbridge’s Line 5.

Today on Stateside, a reporter from MLive discussed the importance of Michigan's Eagle Mine. Then, poet Frances Kai-Hwa Wang dished on her latest poetry collection. Plus, part one of the IPR Points North series on crude oil catastrophes in Michigan.

The "Pipeline Safety: Unusually Sensitive Areas for the Great Lakes, Coastal Beaches, and Certain Coastal Waters" rule went into effect last month. Gas and oil industry groups want a chance to redefine what "Unusually Sensitive Areas" means.

Ten years ago, Enbridge Energy’s pipeline 6B split open near Marshall, Michigan. The EPA estimated more than a million gallons of oil spilled into…

Josh Otten sits in a kayak in the Kalamazoo River west of Battle Creek. He’s pulled up to the bank, holding a palm-sized, wriggling…

One of the worst oil spills into an inland waterway in U.S. history happened right here in Michigan, 10 years ago this week.It happened on a Sunday…

Five years ago today, an oil pipeline near Marshall, Michigan split open, starting the biggest inland oil spill in U.S. history.The heavy tar sands oil…

On July 25, 2010 at 5:58 p.m., Enbridge's Line 6B split open in a wetland near Marshall, Michigan.The break was not discovered for 17 hours. During that…

The biggest inland oil spill in U.S. history happened right here in Michigan. Now that five years have passed, we checked in with people who were affected…

People in Michigan are naturally concerned about the thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing the state. After all, Michigan suffered through the…