Enbridge Energy announced today that they will not comply with the State of Michigan’s order to shut down the flow of oil through the twin Line 5 pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac by May 2021. The state of Michigan revoked Enbridge’s easement permitting the pipeline due to multiple incurable violations and a lack of due care in its operation.
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People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)AP
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Chaos at the Capitol: As supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Ohio’s members of Congress were whisked to a secure location, reports Sabrina Eaton, who has reaction from both Republicans and Democrats to the mayhem.
Called out: Republican Gov. Mike DeWine was among the Ohio officials who denounced the Trump supporters’ assault on the Capitol. In a statement, DeWine called the mob an “embarrassment to our country.” But responding to Ohio Republican Party Chairman Jane Timken, House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes, a Democrat, said: “This is on you and the rest of the Republicans wh
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The University of Michigan has a draft plan to reach carbon neutrality. The President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality’s recommendations call for the university’s campuses to reduce emissions and to use carbon offsets to become carbon neutral by 2025 and reduce total U-M emissions to net-zero by 2040.
“My first impression is that this is the type of thing that can move the University of Michigan from a laggard to a leader,” said Mike Shriberg, the Great Lakes Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation. He’s been critical of the university for taking so long to do something. Shriberg formerly was the Education Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the university.
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The massive coronavirus vaccination effort to immunize Michigan s roughly 600,000 health care workers and eventually the entire population is in high gear as Pfizer s vaccine candidate undergoes a federal hearing Thursday to review whether it can be safely injected into the arms of millions of Americans.
In the scramble to stop a pandemic that s killed 288,000 people in the U.S. and 10,138 in Michigan, some metro Detroit hospital systems told the Free Press this week that they re mobilizing the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history with so many unknowns that, in some ways, it s like they re flying in the dark.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will take public comment through December 17 on Enbridge Energy s new permit application for a tunnel to encase a replacement section of Line 5, which runs through the Straits of Mackinac.
At the same time, there s a legal battle between Enbridge and the state of Michigan, after Governor Gretchen Whitmer said in November she s revoking Enbridge s easement for the pipeline.
Mike Shriberg is with the National Wildlife Foundation.
He says the pipeline threatens vulnerable waters held in the public trust. There s very solid ground to say that Line 5 right now is in violation of the public trust, says Shriberg. Because there s very actual little public benefit and there s a huge public cost if there is a spill.