A National Research Council committee opened a second investigation of potential environmental consequences from diluted bitumen (dilbit) spills from pipelines. A National Research Council committee ...

Science Says What? is a monthly column written by Great Lakes now contributor Sharon Oosthoek exploring what science can tell us about what’s happening beneath and above the waves of our beloved Great ...

Oil booms float in a marshy area near a residential area in Mayflower, Ark., where ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29 and spilled a river of Canadian heavy oil, or dilbit. What caused ...

VANCOUVER - A new federal government study has concluded that diluted bitumen — the product that would be transported by the Northern Gateway pipeline — sinks in seawater when battered by waves and ...

A committee of nationally recognized experts from academia and the private sector will meet for the first time on Wednesday to begin a study that has broad implications for how the United States ...

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Signs relating to the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill are seen here at Morrow Pond in Galesburg, Michigan on July 15, 2015. Morrow Pond was the oil spill cleanup spot furthest downstream. The spill ...

A dark streak of spilled oil in Washington County, Kansas, near the Nebraska border where the Keystone pipeline ruptured last week. The spill in Kansas is now the second-largest spill of tar sands ...

Oct. 3 — To the Editor: What is the difference between Dilbert and Dilbit? The answer explains the reason why some engineering majors and business majors shared different dinner tables back in college ...

The Canadian crude oil that would flow through the Keystone XL pipeline is either the lynchpin of U.S. energy security or the path to certain environmental destruction, depending on whom you talk to.

EVERY week, another barge or tanker traverses the narrow straits in the San Juan Islands, bearing a cargo of tar-sands crude oil from Canada headed for refineries. In order to flow through a pipeline ...

A correction was made to this article on Dec. 9. A National Research Council committee opened a second investigation of potential environmental consequences from diluted bitumen (dilbit) spills from ...