Line 5 enbridge

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.

Advocates for the Line 5 pipeline relocation project made a stop in Wausau Wednesday afternoon

A federal judge signaled Thursday that he won't order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline, despite a Wisconsin tribe's arguments that rapid erosion could expose the line and cause a massive oil spill on reservation land.

Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to argue Thursday that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline that the tribe says is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land

A court hearing is scheduled for this week as environmental and tribal advocates continue to voice concerns about an oil and gas pipeline that runs across northern Wisconsin

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

Environmental groups are pointing to a recent 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas by the Keystone Pipeline as a warning that a planned pipeline project in Michigan could bring the same result.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun an environmental impact study of the Enbridge Line 5 project, which would dig a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac to route an oil pipeline. Environmental groups and indigenous tribes oppose the project.

A federal judge will allow an oil and gas pipeline to continue to flow on a northern Wisconsin American Indian reservation while its operators work to reroute the line around the tribal land.

Tribal and environmental advocates are calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to reject permits to expand the Line 5 pipeline, a year after the timeline Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered it shut down.