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The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

After years of legal wrangling, energy company Enbridge has finally started rerouting an aging oil pipeline around a tribal reservation in northern Wisconsin.

The dispute is part of a broader fight over Enbridge’s plan to build a four-mile tunnel for its aging Line 5 pipeline, an $800 million project the company said would be safer for the Great Lakes.

The Straits of Mackinac aren't just ecologically critical — they're the center of the Anishinaabe creation story.

One of the attorney’s representing the Bad River band feels such decisions endanger important public resources

The tribe claims the Corps' permitting approval for Canadian oil company Enbridge’s construction of a 41-mile pipeline relocation project is unlawful

Gov Gretchen Whitmer ordered regulators in 2020 to revoke an easement that allows Enbridge Inc. to operate a 4.5-mile pipeline segment under the Straits of Mackinac, which link Lake Michigan and Lake Huron

A new report from Oil and Water Don't Mix and Clean Water Action claims the project, long promoted as a safer alternative than the existing dual pipes on the lake bed, could shift billions of dollars in financial risk onto the state

Enbridge wants to build a new 41-mile segment of pipeline around the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to replace a 12-mile segment that now crosses tribal land

Dozens of states and cities around the country are suing the fossil fuel industry, claiming companies misled the public about the dangers of their products