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Michigan has been plugging away at plugging abandoned oil and gas wells for decades. A new grant from the U.S. Department of Interior will help boost the state’s efforts.
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The site of the old Cities Service Refinery now houses a CITGO oil storage facility and vacant property owned by Oxy USA. The EPA found groundwater in the center of the site had high levels of fuel chemicals — like benzene, which can cause blood cancers.
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Twelve oil refineries in the U.S. put unsafe levels of benzene gas into the air last year — including a refinery in Mount Vernon, east of Evansville.
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Michigan oil official: Higher crude prices are not a “bad thing" for industry, but “hurts consumers”The price of benchmark U.S. crude jumped 8% Tuesday to more than $129 per barrel.
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The "Pipeline Safety: Unusually Sensitive Areas for the Great Lakes, Coastal Beaches, and Certain Coastal Waters" rule went into effect last month. Gas and oil industry groups want a chance to redefine what "Unusually Sensitive Areas" means.
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A report suggests two regional refineries would close because they couldn't get enough oil. Environmentalists dispute the report's projections.
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The Michigan Public Service Commission included climate change impact as it considers Enbridge Energy's request to move its Line 5 oil pipeline from the lake bed of the Mackinac Straits to a proposed tunnel under the Straits.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she's open to allowing construction of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel where Lakes…