Army Corps of Engineers grants final federal Line 3 permit

November 24, 2020 9:11 am Leave a comment

Tanks stand at the Enbridge Energy terminal in Superior on June 29, 2018. .Minnesota utility regulators reaffirmed their support on Thursday for Enbridge’s plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted 4-1 to reject petitions for reconsideration filed by several Ojibwe bands, environmental groups and the state Commerce Department. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday approved the final federal permit for Enbridge Energy's planned replacement of its Line 3 crude-oil pipeline across northern Minnesota, bringing the project a step closer to construction.

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Milwaukee officials seek to build COVID-19 care facility on State Fair Park grounds

April 2, 2020 10:55 pm Leave a comment

Milwaukee-area officials on Thursday asked the Army Corps of Engineers to build a facility at Wisconsin State Fair Park to treat COVID-19 patients.

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Menominee tribe loses appeal over Back Forty mine permit

January 28, 2020 11:34 am Leave a comment

Despite acknowledging that federal agencies had given the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin a “runaround”, a federal appeals court ruled against the tribe this week in a lawsuit over a permit for the Back Forty mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

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Army Corps awards $17M contract for lock, dam repairs

June 4, 2019 12:55 pm Leave a comment

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to a Wisconsin company to repair five Mississippi River locks and dams in the region where western Wisconsin connects to southeastern Minnesota.

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Study: flood control engineering likely has worsened floods

April 5, 2018 11:35 am Leave a comment

This photo released by NASA, and taken from the International Space Station, shows the Mississippi River spilling over its banks in Arkansas and Tennessee in May 2011. Flood control work along the Mississippi River and its tributaries has likely made floods worse in Mississippi and Louisiana, according to a study reported in the journal Nature. Other scientists are not convinced. (NASA via AP)

Flood-control work in the Mississippi River and its tributaries has most likely made floods worse in Mississippi and Louisiana, researchers say.

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Saxon Harbor struggles to rebuild from deadly flood in 2016

October 9, 2017 9:47 am Leave a comment

It has been 14 months since the night of the Saxon Harbor flood, and they're still waiting to rebuild. Iron County A, the two-lane blacktop road that winds around the hills to Lake Superior from Highway 122, is still washed out; crews built a temporary bridge and gravel lane on the road to allow cars to reach a shoreline parking lot, boat ramp and a few nearby homes. (Keith Uhlig//The Wausau Daily Herald via AP)

The sky darkened early here on the evening of July 11, 2016, and the deluge started about 8 p.m.

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Mississippi River dam operations changed to deter Asian carp

August 30, 2017 4:43 pm Leave a comment

The Army Corps of Engineers has tweaked how it runs Lock and Dam 8 on the Mississippi River in Genoa, Wisconsin, in hopes of impeding the spread upriver of invasive Asian carp.

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State to convert farmland to sand storage

June 12, 2017 4:36 am Leave a comment

Wisconsin residents are unhappy about plans to convert local farmland to storage for sand dredged from the Mississippi River.

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DNR gives sand plant preliminary OK (UPDATE)

March 6, 2017 1:32 pm Leave a comment

The state Department of Natural Resources has given a timber company subsidiary preliminary approval for a sand plant in western Wisconsin that would destroy more than 16 acres of wetlands.

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Trump ordering review of Obama rule protecting small streams

February 28, 2017 9:26 am Leave a comment

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday mandating a review of an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution.

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