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The City of Rot
Through dense clouds of smog that clung listlessly to the dilapidated buildings looming over the crumbling roads, Ivy Paterson navigated a path through the trash choked sidewalks. She covered her nose with a swath of filthy fabric to filter the toxic air as she made...
Enbridge Caught Not Telling the Truth about Line 5: Ho-Hum
In not-even-remotely shocking news, the Detroit Free Press reported this past week that Enbridge knew about damaged protective coating on Line 5 for years before divulging that information to Michigan state officials. In response, some of those state officials are...
On Backyards, Property, and New Mythologies of Belonging
[Note: this is the latest entry in a new series of short essays by Environmental Humanities scholars, writers, and activsts on the theme “Backyards”] a. Social Science Fiction as Method In Four Futures: Life After Capitalism, Peter Frase distinguishes between the...
Plastic Pollution and the Neoliberal Arts
[Note: this is the first post in a new series of short essays by Environmental Humanities scholars, writers, and activsts on the theme "Backyards"] A number of recent journal articles and scientific reports have sounded the alarm about the proliferation of plastic...
Breaking: Another Enbridge Screw-up
This just in: the state of Michigan has terminated the contract of the firm hired to perform a risk assessment of Line 5. The reason? Conflict of interest. From the MDEQ press release: Within the past month, the state’s project team became aware that an...
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
On the heels of recent news that Enbridge has long been in violation of safety requirements for its operation of Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac, our tireless friends over at the National Wildlife Federation have released the latest video...
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