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Looking Back and Looking Ahead

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

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...

More on the Marshall Spill “Settlement”

More on the Marshall Spill “Settlement”

As we reported last week, the Department of Justice and Enbridge have reached finally reached a settlement in the Marshall spill. For reasons we described in our post, we don't think the settlement is at all satisfactory. And we're not alone. In an excellent Smart Pig...

Enbridge Ruins Lives, Gets Rewarded

Enbridge Ruins Lives, Gets Rewarded

We're back from our period of dormancy to mark the sixth anniversary of the Marshall spill. (Yes, despite what Enbridge says, today is the anniversary!). By now you have probably heard the news: last week the Department of Justice, at long last, has announced...

Breaking: DOJ Announcement Today

Breaking: DOJ Announcement Today

After six long years of negotiations—yes, we said negotiations!–the Department of Justice will announce fines against Enbridge for the Marshall spill. The news is almost certain to be infuriated. We'll have more to say after the announcement and the Enbridge p.r....

Oakland University Climate Symposium

Oakland University Climate Symposium

Many long time readers of this blog are aware that we keep a side gig teaching American literature at Oakland University. Over the past several months, we've been collaborating with a couple of our magnificent colleagues to organize an exciting event to which we'd...

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 group on the social and politcal implications 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.