Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline

The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court Wednesday that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the case to federal court... 

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2026-04-22/supreme-court-rules-for-michigan-in-its-fight-to-shut-down-an-aging-energy-pipeline

 

Oil flows again through controversial California pipeline after Trump order

Pipeline, closed since 2015 after huge oil spill, reopens after president cites need to boost US supply amid war on Iran…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/oil-california-pipeline-iran

 

Senator Raises Ethics Concerns About Trump’s Pipeline Regulators — ProPublica

After reporting by ProPublica revealed industry connections among Transportation Department regulators and showed how they are seeking to loosen oil and gas pipeline safety regulations, Sen. Maria Cantwell is demanding answers...

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dot-oil-gas-pipeline-ethics-questions-senator-cantwell 

 

No. Ted Cruz Was Not Right About Russia’s Ukraine Invasion. – Mother Jones

" That is just unmitigated horseshit. "
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/no-ted-cruz-was-not-right-about-russias-ukraine-invasion/

Ambassador shortage hampers Biden foreign policy as nominees hit logjam

…Cruz is taking a stand because he objects to a pipeline that will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany and wants the Biden administration to impose sanctions to stop it. His office told the Associated Press he was committed to using whatever leverage he has to force "mandatory sanctions"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/14/ambassador-shortage-biden-foreign-policy-senate

Michigan governor orders Enbridge to shut down controversial Canadian oil pipeline

…The company says it has never experienced in a leak in the underwater section of Line 5 and is currently working to tunnel beneath the lake bed to further improve the safety of the pipeline. But in the last two years, the pipeline has been struck by boat anchors and cables. And in 2010, a separate Enbridge pipeline spilled 3.2m litres of oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/michigan-governor-enbridge-line5-shutdown

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer orders Enbridge Line 5 pipeline shut down; Canada objects - The Washington Post

…There have been 33 spills since 1968 along sections of Line 5 that don't pass through the Straits of Mackinac, according to data Wallace obtained through public records requests…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/02/canada-enbridge-line-5-whitmer-michigan/

Oil and gas pipelines plague US property owners | Popular Science

"I get a call a week from some landowner who says, 'I got an abandoned pipeline, can you come take it out?'" Howell said. "Basically [pipeline workers] are putting a pipeline on some schmuck's property and leaving it there, and that's happening all over the United States. Hundreds of thousands of miles of pipeline have been just abandoned on peoples' property."

https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/oil-gas-pipelines-property/

After Court Rules Dakota Access Pipeline Operating Illegally, Dems Demand Biden It Shut Down | Common Dreams News

...The three-judge panel upheld (pdf) a lower court's ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it granted an easement for DAPL to cross a federal reservoir along the Missouri River, less than a mile from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/05/after-court-rules-dakota-access-pipeline-operating-illegally-dems-demand-biden-it

Trump weakens rules requiring environmental reviews of infrastructure projects

The Trump administration is rolling back major environmental protections that require the US government to comprehensively analyze how proposed projects like pipelines and highways affect surrounding communities.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/15/donald-trump-environmental-reviews-pipelines-highways

The US government claims I'm a 'domestic terrorist'. Am I?

I shut down an oil pipeline as part of a peaceful protest. The government thinks this is violent extremism...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/oil-pipeline-protest-us-domestic-terrorism

Two pipelines in Pennsylvania, Ohio amass more than 800 violations: report - The Hill

Two pipelines being built across Pennsylvania and Ohio by Energy Transfer and its Sunoco subsidiary have amassed more than 800 state and federal permit violations, a Reuters analysis published Wednesday revealed. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418686-two-pipelines-in-pennsylvania-ohio-amass-more-than-800-violations

Oil lobbyist linked to EPA secretary Scott Pruitt's cheap DC condo rental had pipeline project approved - Raw Story

After his wife rented a Washington, D.C. condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt for $50 a night, a Canadian oil lobbyist had his pipeline project approved by the department. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/oil-lobbyist-linked-epa-secretary-scott-pruitts-cheap-dc-condo-rental-pipeline-project-approved/

Enbridge's plans to build tar sands pipeline through Minnesota just hit a snag -- ThinkProgress.org

Enbridge's proposed Line 3 project -- an effort to replace and expand an oil sands pipeline through Minnesota -- hit a roadblock Monday when the state's Department of Commerce said that the project is environmentally and economically risky and that the company has failed to show that the pipeline is even needed at all. "Enbridge...
https://thinkprogress.org/line-3-unnecessary-risky-doc-says-d220f2b26bee/

Fracked Gas Pipeline Crossing Several States Sets Record for Environmental Violations | Alternet

The 713-mile Rover pipeline, will carry fracked gas across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan and Canada.....
http://www.alternet.org/environment/fracked-gas-pipeline-crossing-several-states-sets-record-environmental-violations

Trump's Lawyers Sue Greenpeace Over Dakota Pipeline, Making Jaw-Dropping Accusations | Alternet

Greenpeace calls the suit "a pattern of harassment by corporate bullies, with Trump's attorneys leading the way."...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/trumps-lawyers-sue-greenpeace-over-dapl-making-jaw-dropping-accusations

Nuns are suing to stop a pipeline—because they believe the earth is sacred -- ThinkProgress.org

A win could change the way environmentalists fight pipelines. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/nuns-pipeline-religious-liberty-721ef7531cb4

Dakota Access pipeline and a feeder line leaked more than 100 gallons in March

There were two leaks – one because of a leaky part, the other after an above-ground valve failed – as crews prepared disputed $3.8bn pipeline for operation ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/22/dakota-access-pipeline-oil-leak-energy-transfer-partners

Serious safety, legal concerns hang over nearly operational Dakota Access Pipeline

Oil is slated to begin flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline as early as June 1, but legal questions and safety concerns continue to plague the controversial project. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/dakota-access-pipeline-legal-and-safety-questions-dc75f8b2b460

Oil, pipeline industries want Trump to renege on promise to make them build only with American steel

Just four days after he took office, Pr*sident Donald Trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises by issuing a memorandum calling for a Commerce Department study on making all-new, retrofitted, repaired, or expanded U.S. pipelines to be built with American steel. The problem for Trump is that it’s likely no way can be found to craft a domestic-steel-only policy that’s legal. And even if that obstacle could be overcome, a majority of Congress opposes the idea.

The White House soon exempted the Keystone XL pipeline because it is underway, with much of the pipe already stacked ready for installation. According to KXL builder TransCanada, about half the pipeline’s steel will come from abroad, half from a plant in Arkansas....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1659291