Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking the new state attorney general for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of a deal to run an oil pipeline beneath a crucial section of the Great Lakes.

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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has rejected Michigan's offer of $8 million to support a project to keep invasive carp from establishing themselves in the Great Lakes, saying the money wouldn't be useful for at least 10 years.

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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 Senate voted on Wednesday for a deal to replace a 65-year-old oil pipeline in the Great Lakes, approving legislation to empower a new authority to oversee the construction and operation of a utility tunnel that would encase the new pipeline.

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is dropping a proposal to have the Mackinac Bridge Authority oversee the construction and operation of a tunnel to house a replacement oil pipeline in the Great Lakes.

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Legislation poised to advance in Michigan's Senate would permit the Mackinac Bridge Authority to help carry out a deal to replace twin oil pipelines in a crucial Great Lakes channel.

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to use the final weeks of his time in office to lock in a deal allowing the construction of a hotly debated oil-pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes — a plan his successor opposes but may be powerless to stop.

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Cleaning up contaminated drinking water and smoothing deteriorating roads will top the agenda for Michigan Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who said this week she hopes to find bipartisan consensus with the GOP-controlled Legislature.

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's administration and the Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge have agreed to replace twin 65-year-old crude oil pipes in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes with a line that would run through a tunnel far below the lake bed, officials told The Associated Press.

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