Line 5

Two protests were in the news this week — one over concerns about an oil pipeline, the other about anti-trans remarks made by a Traverse City salon owner.

The motion was passed behind closed doors during a special meeting Friday after an inquiry was requested in a letter from the Association of Faculty and Professional Staff.

The debt ceiling deal sets a hard deadline — just two years — on federal environmental reviews of infrastructure projects.

Tribal Sovereign Nations continue to push for the pipeline’s decommissioning. Dozens of them — including in northern Michigan — blasted Canada for its continued support of the project in a report to the U.N. last month.

They sent a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council last week, months before Canada will have its human rights record scrutinized in a routine review.

The Army Corps will decide whether Enbridge Energy should receive a permit to start the project that would replace the 69-year-old dual pipelines that run along the lakebed carrying crude oil and natural gas liquids.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had entered the next stage in assessing the environmental impact of the Great Lakes Tunnel project.

The Constitution refers to treaties with other sovereign nations as “the supreme law of the land.” But what happens when promises have been made that are potentially in conflict? Two different treaties with the U.S. could lead to very different outcomes for Line 5 – a controversial pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.

The Constitution refers to treaties with other sovereign nations as “the supreme law of the land.” But what happens when promises have been made that are potentially in conflict? Two different treaties with the U.S. could lead to very different outcomes for Line 5 – a controversial pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.

Environmental advocacy groups said the predicted price increase is well short of the spike the company had been suggesting would result from a shutdown.