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Crews are cleaning up a diesel spill into the Mississippi River that occurred when two Union Pacific locomotives derailed from a bridge in St. Paul.
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Read More »Milwaukee port starts shipping petroleum, raising concerns
Petroleum is being shipped out of the Port of Milwaukee this spring for the first time in at least a decade, raising environmental concerns.
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Read More »Michigan official: Tugboat damaged Great Lakes pipelines (UPDATE)
Recent damage to underwater oil and electrical lines in the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that's blamed for an insulation fluid spill was caused by a tugboat dragging its anchor, Michigan's attorney general announced Tuesday.
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Read More »Judge sides with feds on temporary oil pipeline pause
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe was unsuccessful Monday in asking a federal judge to recognize three federal agencies' request for a developer to "voluntarily pause" work on a segment of the Dakota Access pipeline that the tribe says holds sacred sites and artifacts.
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Read More »Feds request ‘pause’ for span of pipeline
The Latest on the legal challenge and protest of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline
Read More »Enbridge Energy drops plans for Sandpiper crude oil pipeline
Enbridge Energy said Thursday it has dropped its proposal to build the Sandpiper crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.
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Read More »DNR to hold public hearings on pipeline project
The state Department of Natural Resources is planning to hold a pair of public hearings on Enbridge Energy Partner's plans to build a crude oil pipeline from North Dakota to Superior.
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Read More »Lawmakers want delay on permit for piping oil beneath river
Two members of Congress want the Obama administration to put the brakes on a move to allow piping of crude oil beneath the St. Clair River through lines that are nearly a century old.
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Read More »Congress set for year-end push on tax, spending compromise
In return for Republicans' getting to lift the country's long-standing cap on exports of crude oil, Democrats are likely to get five-year extensions of the tax credits now used to help finance solar and wind projects.
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Read More »Big cities scramble to be prepared for an oil train disaster
They rumble past schools, homes and businesses in dozens of cities around the country — 100-car trains loaded with crude oil from the Upper Midwest.
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