https://www.wcmu.org/tags/oil Oil en-US Copyright Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:08:28 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2025-11-24/feds-eye-new-option-for-michigan-line-5-no-concrete-tunnel-horizontal-drilling Weeks before an anticipated final permitting decision regarding the Line 5 pipeline tunnel project, federal regulators put a new option on the table. Environmentalists panned the last-minute change as a 'bait-and-switch' Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:08:28 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2025-11-24/feds-eye-new-option-for-michigan-line-5-no-concrete-tunnel-horizontal-drilling Kelly House, Bridge Michigan https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-04-05/finish-line-is-in-view-state-advances-cleanup-of-abandoned-oil-gas-wells More federal funding will address the remaining 250 documented orphan wells. Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:24:38 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-04-05/finish-line-is-in-view-state-advances-cleanup-of-abandoned-oil-gas-wells Teresa Homsi https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2023-05-05/sierra-club-fights-plastic-burning-hopes-to-ban-chemical-recycling When the Michigan legislature passed a historic overhaul of the state’s waste management law, recycling proponents celebrated. But not everyone was happy with some aspects of the new policy - they say it opens the door to “industrial plastic burning.” Fri, 05 May 2023 21:28:29 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2023-05-05/sierra-club-fights-plastic-burning-hopes-to-ban-chemical-recycling Teresa Homsi https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2022-08-30/michigan-receives-25-million-in-federal-funding-to-plug-up-abandoned-oil-gas-wells Michigan has been plugging away at plugging abandoned oil and gas wells - for decades. A new grant from the US Department of Interior will help boost the state’s efforts. Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:52:20 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2022-08-30/michigan-receives-25-million-in-federal-funding-to-plug-up-abandoned-oil-gas-wells Teresa Homsi https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2022-07-27/impacts-of-russian-oil-ban U.S. sanctions on Russia are economic weapons. Added to the arsenal a ban on Russian oil imports. That’s about 3% of U.S. crude oil imports. While the aim is to damage the Russian economy, the fallout is being felt by American motorists. What are the short and long-term impacts? Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:26:52 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2022-07-27/impacts-of-russian-oil-ban Patrick Center https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2020-02-26/residential-property-suspected-of-oil-spill-that-traveled-over-twenty-miles-into-midland State and local officials are working to determine how much transformer fluid leaked into the Pine River on Tuesday. They say the spill started at a… Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:18:02 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2020-02-26/residential-property-suspected-of-oil-spill-that-traveled-over-twenty-miles-into-midland https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-07-12/organizations-encourage-people-to-think-differently-about-alternative-energy An increasing number of organizations, including the Christian Coalition and Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, are shifting the conversation about… Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:22:18 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-07-12/organizations-encourage-people-to-think-differently-about-alternative-energy Mike Horace https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-05-03/charlevoix-county-company-could-change-the-oil-industrys-landscape Have you ever driven through the countryside and noticed an oil well with fire coming out of the top?That’s a gas flare. It burns off natural gas that’s… Thu, 03 May 2018 21:31:30 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-05-03/charlevoix-county-company-could-change-the-oil-industrys-landscape https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-04-06/coast-guard-says-line-break-may-have-been-caused-by-vessel-activity The Coast Guard launched a marine casualty investigation Friday into the cause of a line break that has so far spilled 600 gallons of dielectric fluid… Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:54:23 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-04-06/coast-guard-says-line-break-may-have-been-caused-by-vessel-activity https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-04-05/broken-power-lines-beneath-the-straits-could-leak-as-much-as-800-gallons-of-dielectric-fluid As much as 800 gallons of dielectric fluid could spill into the straits of Mackinac from two broken power lines, according to the Coast Guard.Efforts are… Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:37:14 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2018-04-05/broken-power-lines-beneath-the-straits-could-leak-as-much-as-800-gallons-of-dielectric-fluid