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The Red Lake Nation is making history as the first in Indian Country to win federal approval for its energy development organization.

Federal regulator steps in to protect Minnesotas wild rice stands The MPCA says it is caught between state and federal law.  April 29, 2021 — 6:47pm Text size Copy shortlink: Wild rice waters contaminated with sulfate from industrial pollution have never been included on Minnesotas long list of officially polluted waters that require fixing. But they will be now — 30 of them across the state — thanks to ...

Federal judge rules in favor of continued construction of Line 3—a 330-mile pipeline carrying tar sands oil “But we will continue to press our case that the Army Corps violated the law and failed to fulfill its responsibilities in granting the permit.” Image Credit: Stop Line 3 Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company, who already began construction on Line 3, a pipeline that will transport 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, will be able ...

In an opinion filed Sunday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote the groups and bands did not meet the burden of proof necessary for the injunction and said the harm of stopping construction, which began Dec. 1, outweighs the environmental risks of the new Line 3. She noted "most of the environmental effects stemming from the construction of Line 3 will not be permanent or irreversible, as the preliminary injunction standard requires." "Overall, the court finds the balance of harms and public int...