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In which we struggle to maintain our measured tone…

We're a little groggy on this Monday following an exciting four day academic conference we helped to organize at our university, which is why we've been a little quiet here at the blog lately. Scholars from all over the world traveled to Michigan to talk about nerdy...

Breaking News: Upton Betrays Michigan

Some breaking news to report: Michigan Representative Fred Upton, who represents plenty of citizens along Line 6B, has introduced legislation that would put an end to the Presidential Permitting process for cross-border pipelines. The bill is intended to fast-track...

“Horrific”

It's been a few days since our last landowner story. But don't worry; we've got more. We think the series has been quite powerful (if you've missed any part of it, please take a look back). We wonder what Enbridge thinks. We wonder how many stories like this, how many...

Radio, Radio

If you're bored at work this afternoon, you might want to tune in to the Tom Sumner radio program on WFNT out of Flint from 4-5 pm. His guests will be the awesome Beth Wallace of the National Wildlife Federation (you know her!) and, um, yours truly. Let's just say...

Breaking News (we wish!)

Breaking News (we wish!)

You might recall that a couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that the Pipeline Safety Trust has had to resort to crowdfunding in order to raise enough money to send ordinary citizens to this year's Pipeline Safety Trust conference. In our view, this is a dire situation....

“Long and Exhausting”

“Long and Exhausting”

If you missed it, yesterday Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter David Hasemyer at Inside Climate News posted a terrific piece on the plight of landowners whose homes sit in close proximity to the Line 6B pipeline. Among other things, Hasemyer notes that there are no...

Links and Resources

Pipeline Safety Trust

A nonprofit public charity promoting pipeline safety through education and advocacy..

CENHS Podcast

From Rice University’s Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences

Petrocultures

Univeristy of Alberta’s research groupĀ on the social and politcal implicationsĀ of oil and energy use.

Resilience

A journal of the environmental humanities.

ASLE

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

Inside Climate News

Covering climate change, energy, and the environment.