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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A new commission in Michigan is moving forward with a decades-long plan to revamp the state's transportation and drinking-water systems and other infrastructure.

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A 65-year-old pipeline carrying crude oil beneath a delicate waterway connecting two of the Great Lakes could be replaced with pipes buried in a tunnel or partially enclosed in trenches that would pose virtually no leak risks but would require years and hundreds of millions of dollars to build, according to a report released on Friday.

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A year after Wisconsin lawmakers struggled to pass a transportation budget, their counterparts in Michigan put the finishing touches on a $56.8 billion state budget Tuesday that a substantial amount of new money toward roads.

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Michigan has become the latest state to repeal its prevailing-wage laws.

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