Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said earlier this week that his administration has renewed its challenge of a regulatory panel’s approval of Enbridge Energy’s plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude-oil pipeline across northern Minnesota, saying he wants to let the legal process play out.

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The Michigan attorney general has deemed unconstitutional a 2018 law that established a panel to oversee the construction and operation of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel linking lakes Huron and Michigan

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Enbridge Energy is delaying by a year the start of service for its planned Line 3 replacement oil pipeline through northern Minnesota.

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Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that his administration will keep pursuing an appeal of an independent regulatory commission's approval of Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline in northern Minnesota, siding with environmental and tribal groups in his biggest decision since becoming governor last month.

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A House Republican says he hopes a decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals will prompt Gov. Tim Walz to decide quickly that his administration should drop a challenge of the approval of Enbridge Energy's proposal to replace its Line 3 crude-oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.

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Prosecutors in northern Minnesota have charged four protesters who tried to shut down an Enbridge oil pipeline and might have succeeded had they not brought the wrong tool.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says his new administration will be "actively engaged" on contentious natural-resources issues, including the Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.

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A proposal to run an oil pipeline beneath a waterway connecting two Great Lakes cleared its final hurdle on Wednesday, gaining approval of a Michigan panel created a week earlier in a dash to complete the deal before Republican Gov. Rick Snyder left office.

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A recently established state panel in Michigan could give final approval to a proposed oil-pipeline tunnel beneath a crucial section of the Great Lakes.

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The Michigan Legislature approved a bill on Tuesday that would allow the replacement of a 65-year-old oil pipeline in a Great Lakes waterway, voting to establish a state authority that would oversee the construction of a tunnel to encase a new segment of pipe.

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