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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...
A Bad Week for Democracy in Michigan
You probably won't hear about it much in the news, given recent events in the national political arena, but two very bad regulatory decisions were made here in Michigan this week that ought to alarm you. Both of them could significantly weaken local authority—like...
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
We’re back! We’ve got a spiffy new look, a new mission (details below), and starting right now in this very sentence I’m even dropping, for good, the rhetorical first person plural. Yep, things have changed during the eighteen or so months this blog has been dormant....
Enbridge Community Meetings
As many of you know, postcards from Enbridge have been arriving in the mail this week announcing a "Community Meeting." In fact, Enbridge is (has been) holding a number of these meetings around the region this spring (details below). Understandably, this has people...
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