Kalamazoo County officials said they began an emergency response at about 6 p.m. Monday after news spread that a 30-inch oil pipeline in Marshall sprung a leak and released oil into the Talmadge ...

It's been 10 years since the disaster sent tar sands oil into the waterway, triggering more than $1 billion in cleanup costs.

Gerry Van Kooten, currently researching in Alaska, has been spending time online: reading about the pipeline leak that has spilled more than one million (recently estimated) gallons of oil into ...

The Kalamazoo River oil spill also started conversations about other pipelines in the United States, perhaps most notably Line 5, which runs under the Straits of Mackinaw.

First, Jesse Jacox could smell the oil spill. Then he saw it. “I was sickened as I watched turtles trying to poke their heads up through the oil.” Jacox was looking at the Kalamazoo River and ...

Thirteen years ago the Kalamazoo River was unrecognizable after an oil spill. Wildlife biologist Joshua Otten lived in Southwest Michigan for two years, helping save turtles covered in oil.

A decade after the historic Kalamazoo River oil spill, environmental activists rolled out a campaign to remove Enbridge, the company involved, from the State of Michigan. On July 25, 2010 ...

With the Kalamazoo River oil spill, Adriaens said inspectors probably did see a pressure drop but were not able to immediately discern its cause. But because the spill occurred around a populated area ...

Oil leaking from a 30-inch pipeline coated birds and fish as it poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, one of the state's major waterways, before it was shut off Monday.

Ten years ago, one of the worst inland oil spills in American history played out in West Michigan — the Enbridge oil spill on the Kalamazoo River.

Payment agreed. He said the Kalamazoo River oil spill was an awakening to the threat pipelines pose on the environment and the reason Michiganders know about Line 5.