By Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. For more than a decade, controversy over an oil pipeline that passes directly through a Native American reservation and then across a sensitive waterway that is also a key shipping lane has brewed in Wisconsin and Michigan. Read Now at Great Lakes Now.| Great Lakes Now
The massive oil spill in the Kalamazoo River 15 years ago polluted the water and shoreline and left oil-coated wildlife.| Great Lakes Now
Detroit groups use technology to track truck traffic's environmental impact, while Michigan hospitals face Medicaid funding risks and Line 5 tunnel project raises environmental concerns.| Planet Detroit