A federal judge's decision on whether a year's worth of additional study of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline adequately responded to American Indian concerns appears weeks if not months away.

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A recent study by Wisconsin researchers suggests that the failure of any of the 25 aging locks on the upper Mississippi River could result in nearly half a million truckloads of freight on highways between Minnesota and Missouri.

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Cat Islands Chain Reconstruction

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Congress has approved $300 million to keep a multi-year program going that is aimed at fixing some of the Great Lakes' biggest environmental problems, from invasive species to river bottoms laced with toxic chemicals.

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Editor’s Note: Read the story The Daily Reporter first reported on HERE To the editor: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for investigating, developing and maintaining the nation’s water and related environmental resources. They are not a social ...

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Melanie S. Welte AP Writer Des Moines, IA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slowly released water from a bloated reservoir into a river that winds toward Des Moines and a vulnerable levee protecting a downtown neighborhood Thursday. Tom ...

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By Ben Evans AP Writer Washington — Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town. Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. ...

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By Sean Ryan The Waukesha Water Utility has to spend millions drawing fresh water from a new source. Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money ...

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By Cheryl Wittenauer AP Writer St. Louis — U.S. military veterans are sorting through a massive government archaeological collection that has been neglected for decades, with the hope of archiving the stone tools, arrows and American Indian beads that were ...

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By John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Traverse City, Mich. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order immediate closure of shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. The court rejected a request ...

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