Oil Pipeline

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, or EGLE, began accepting comments on the plan earlier this month. The public can submit feedback through August 29

Environmental groups across Michigan are pushing back after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed it will fast-track Enbridge's Line 5 tunnel project without conducting a full environmental review

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists' fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel use

The problem was discovered Nov. 11 in Jefferson County, 60 miles west of Milwaukee, by an Enbridge Energy technician, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, citing a federal accident report

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

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced an 18-month delay in permitting a controversial oil-tunnel construction project under the Great Lakes

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.

The Michigan Legislature approved a resolution this week backing energy independence and asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to call off attempts to shut down the Line 5 dual pipelines.