After a U.S. energy boom and strong backing from President Donald Trump propelled an expansion of the nation's sprawling oil and gas pipeline network, mounting political pressures and legal setbacks have put its future growth in doubt even as the pandemic saps demand for fuel.
Tagged with: Joe Biden Keystone XL pipeline pipeline President Donald Trump
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When the developer Ann Pieper Eisenbrown decided to use specially treated lumber, instead of steel and concrete, for her new apartment building in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, she was mostly thinking about the environment.
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Long known as a liaison between state government and residential contractors, the Wisconsin Builders Association recently had to become an expert at interpreting rules and restrictions related to COVID-19.
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The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic attorney general just before he took office in 2019.
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will once again seek federal approval to overhaul Interstate 94 East-West in Milwaukee after the department dropped the project in 2017.
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The heat is on. And for most of America it'll stay on through the rest of the month and maybe longer, meteorologists say.
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The field hospital built at a cost of more than $15 million in West Allis to handle a possible overflow of COVID-19 patients was always likened to an insurance policy.
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Milwaukee County landlords filed nearly 1,500 eviction actions in June, an increase of 26% from last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic tightens the squeeze on renters.
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The "Metamorphosis" sculpture that disappeared from Houdini Plaza a decade ago has reappeared at a plaza along the Fox River at the south end of the Lawe Street bridge.
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Small businesses can still get help from the government's coronavirus-relief plan after Congress extended the Paycheck Protection Program until Aug. 8.
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