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Posted Friday, July 30, 2010
Oil from the Enbridge pipeline that ruptured in Marshall is now about halfway to Lake Michigan. But EPA officials say they have managed to contain the spill east of Marrow Lake in Galesburg. Some Calhoun County residents who live near the river are being asked to evacuate after the latest air test came back with unacceptably high levels of benzine. Enbridge's CEO Patrick Daniel apologized for the spill yesterday and pledged the company will take full responsibility for the cleanup. The Environmental Protection Agency is heading up the cleanup efforts. It's estimated cleaning up the oil may take several months. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the leak, which happened Sunday and sent more than 800-thousand gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River.
Candidates in the GOP race in West Michigan's 2nd Congressional District continue to trade barbs ahead of Tuesday's primary election. Candidate Bill Huizenga's campaign filed a formal complaint with the federal election commission against the Jay Riemersma campaign. At the heart of the complaint are attack ads against Huizenga and fellow candidate Wayne Kuipers; those ads ran in Kent and Muskegon counties in recent weeks and were paid for by a third party. Huizenga's complaint say Riemersma's campaign violated federal law by helping to arrange advertising with another group that paid for the ads. Recently, candidate Bill Cooper sued Riemersma campaign. Cooper says Reimersma volunteers were spreading lies about him during door-to-door campaign visits. There's been response from the Riemersma campaign.
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