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Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure

What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government – with implications that go far beyond the fate of a technical legal conflict.

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Federal judge blocks Whitmer from shutting down submerged Great Lakes pipeline

A federal judge has blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from revoking an easement that allows Enbridge to run an oil pipeline through a Great Lakes channel

The Independent UK

A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions

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.

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Trump DOJ argues Michigan effort to shut down underwater pipeline interferes with US foreign policy

The Trump administration is trying to persuade a federal judge that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's attempt to shut down part of an aging pipeline interferes with U.S. foreign policy

The Independent UK

U.S. Army analysis finds Great Lakes pipeline tunnel would have sweeping environmental impacts

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft analysis of the environmental effects of building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline running beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes

The Independent UK

Line 5, a Trump donor, is profiting off a pipeline deal threatening pollution

Trump administration accused of ‘quid pro quo’ for fast-tracking controversial fossil fuel proposal in Michigan

The Guardian - US

Wisconsin agency issues first round of permits for Enbridge Line 5 reroute around reservation

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued the first round of permits allowing Enbridge to reroute an aging pipeline around a tribal reservation

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Federal appellate panel sends Michigan pipeline challenge to state court

A federal appellate panel says a Michigan state judge will have to decide whether to shut down a portion of an aging petroleum pipeline running beneath the Straits of Mackinac

The Independent UK

Michigan Attorneys Argue To Move Pipeline Lawsuit To State Court

Michigan attorneys argue to move Line 5 pipeline lawsuit from federal to state court, amid disputes over jurisdiction and environmental concerns.

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60 Indigenous nations oppose pipeline

The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill"

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Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes

Michigan regulators have approved a $500 million plan to encase in a protective tunnel a portion of an oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes

The Independent UK

‘We can’t drink oil’: how a 70-year-old pipeline imperils the Great Lakes

Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water

The Guardian - US

Michigan pipeline standoff could affect water protection and Indigenous rights across the US

Should states and Indigenous nations be able to influence energy projects they view as harmful or contrary to their laws and values? This question lies at the center of a heated debate over Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline, which carries oil and natural gas across Wisconsin and Michigan.

The Conversation

Judge gives Enbridge 3 years to close oil pipeline on tribal land in Wisconsin

A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down a section of an oil and gas pipeline that crosses reservation land

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Wisconsin tribe to ask court to shut down oil pipeline

Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to present their arguments that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline because rapid erosion could expose it and cause a massive oil spill on reservation land

The Independent UK

Army Corps further delays decision on Great Lakes oil tunnel

Federal officials are delaying a decision on whether to approve an oil pipeline tunnel in a Great Lakes waterway

Salon

Governors could derail climate plans

Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have clean energy plans. Fossil-fuel-friendly candidates could undermine them

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Trump set to return to Michigan, looks to energize his base for November

DETROIT — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Michigan Saturday with Republicans in the state hoping he can motivate his base of supporters and help secure Macomb County, a key area the GOP needs to win in November.

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Canada invokes treaty with US in push to keep cross-border pipeline open

Canada warns of ‘significant’ economic damage in the event of a shutdown of Line 5, which travels through Michigan

Tribune News Service

Trump slams Whitmer, Benson, Nessel at Michigan rally

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump tried to boost select Michigan candidates running for secretary of state, attorney general and the Legislature Saturday in a nearly two-hour address that aimed to cement his influence in the Michigan GOP.

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