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Do you get déjà vu? Among the very first assignments I gave myself when I started this blog more than ten years ago was to read and draw some lessons from the comprehensive report released in July 2012 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) after its...

I'm on vacation this week, enjoying the Lake Michigan paradise so many of us are working to protect. For that reason, I don't have time to provide any real analysis here. But I do want to note that major news has come from federal court in Wisconsin: a judge has rule...

Shameful. Reprehensible. Disgusting. Settler colonialism in action, 2022-style. A year or so ago, I wrote about Enbridge's cheap pr stunt aimed at sowing division among tribal members. At the time, I said it was probably the worst thing they'd ever done. But this...

Today marks twelve years since Enbridge Line 6b ruptured near Marshall, Michigan and spilled a million gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River. As of this writing, I haven't seen any acknowledgment of the grim anniversary from Enbridge, even though they...

By now, you’ve probably heard the news: the Michigan Public Service Commission yesterday declined to rule definitively on Enbridge’s application to re-route a portion of Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac inside a concrete tunnel. Instead, the Commission reopened...

Dear Commissioners- I am writing to encourage you to deny Enbridge’s application to relocate the twin pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac into a tunnel. I hope you will please consider the following: 1. The limited scope of review adopted by the ALJ...