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Michigan: Ban Heavy Oil from Straits of Mackinac Pipeline
2015-07-14 19:37:03| Waste Management - Topix.net
Michigan officials say they will ban heavy crude oil from being transported along a controversial pipeline running beneath the scenic waterway where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet. Attorney General Bill Schuette and Dan Wyant, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, said Tuesday carrying heavier oil would "unreasonably" put the Great Lakes at risk.
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