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Oil Spill Threatens Lake Michigan

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More than one million gallons may have leaked.

Just how often, exactly, are these things supposed to happen? Federal officials are fighting to keep an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River from reaching Lake Michigan. The spill comes from a leaking pipeline, which may have dumped one million gallons of oil into the river. The cause of the leak is currently unknown, and the company that owns the pipeline, Enbridge Energy Partners, is laying down boom.

Read it at The New York Times

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