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Kalamazoo River

The Dilbit Disaster: Three Years Later

Once black with oil, the Kalamazoo River runs clear now. But EPA orders dredging and says it will be years before the spill's long-term effects are known.

By David Hasemyer

Dilbit disaster cleanup in Michigan
Kayaks on the Kalamazoo River

Floods Could Affect 2010 Oil Spill Cleanup

David Hasemyer

Oil cleanup on the Kalamazoo River.

6B Cleanup Aims to Stop Spreading Oil

By Lisa Song

Dilbit Sinks in Enbridge Spill, but Floats in Its Study

Cleanup workers removing submerged oil.

Enbridge Balking at Clean-Up of Its Oil Spill

By Lisa Song

Worker cleaning up the Kalamazoo River on Aug. 4, 2012.

2 Years After Spill, Dilbit Still Threat to Kalamazoo River

By David Hasemyer

Landowner Carol Brimhall

Pipeline Project Raises Mich. Landowners' Ire

By David Hasemyer

Crews replace the ruptured section of the Line 14 pipeline near Grand Marsh, Wis

Enbridge Pipeline 'Blew Like an Oil Well'

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News

Technicians prepare the pipe before removing the ruptured section of 6B.

Feds Blame Enbridge for 'Complete Breakdown of Safety'

By Lisa Song and Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

Inside the Dilbit Disaster: Epilogue

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

The Kalamazoo River remained closed to the public for almost two years.

Inside the Dilbit Disaster, Part 3

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

The Dilbit Disaster (Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting)

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Aerial view of the Morrow Lake Delta of the Kalamazoo River, still closed as a r

Kalamazoo Reopens, Oil Remains

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

A handful of Canadian oil sands

Primer: Secrecy Shrouds Diluted Bitumen Risks

By Marie C. Baca, InsideClimate News

(PHOTOS): Bare Hands Clean-Up of a Horrible Oil Spill

By David Sassoon

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