Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Wednesday she will try in June to shut down a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with the operator of the line, Enbridge, saying the state will be in "great peril" if oil continues to flow under a delicate waterway.

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The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for volunteers to help assess environmental and navigation hazards in the Straits of Mackinac, the channel that links lakes Huron and Michigan.

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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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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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Congress has taken a big step toward building a long-sought shipping lock on the waterway that links lakes Huron and Superior.

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Ordinarily, a proposal to bury radioactive waste in a scenic area that relies on tourism would inspire "not in my backyard" protests from local residents — and relief in places that were spared.

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A U.S.-Canadian panel urged both nations Friday to consider installing water retention structures to boost levels on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, which fell to their lowest point on record in January and have lagged well below their historical average since the late 1990s.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may take another look at placing structures at the bottom of the St. Clair River to boost water levels in Lakes Huron and Michigan.

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Panel: Great Lakes not losing extra water TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Lakes Huron and Michigan are not losing extra billions of gallons of water daily because of navigational dredging as a Canadian group contends, a scientific panel said Tuesday. ...

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John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Detroit (AP) — Lakes Huron and Michigan are not losing an unnaturally high volume of water to Lake Erie, and there is no need to place barriers in the St. Clair River to stem the ...

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