"Whitmer Threatens Profit Seizure If Pipeline Keeps Operating"
"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threatened Tuesday to go after Enbridge’s profits from a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the company defies her order to shut it down."
Source: AP, 05/12/2021
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Minnesota 'Clean Cars' Rules May Move Forward, Judge Says
"More electric vehicles could soon be for sale on Minnesota car lots after an administrative law judge ruled Friday that the Walz administration can set new emissions standards without the OK of lawmakers."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 05/10/2021
SEJ Calls on DOJ To Expand Investigation of Minneapolis Police Department
April 22, 2021 — Today, SEJ wrote a letter to Attorney General of the United States Merrick B. Garland calling on the Department of Justice to expand its investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department to include violations of civil rights and of the First Amendment stemming from police targeting journalists in Brooklyn Center and anywhere else in Minnesota that occurred during the recent protests. Read the letter.
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"Judge Nixes Civil Rights Bid to Block Chicago Metal Shredder"
"A federal judge in Illinois has refused to halt city permits for a contested metal recycling plant slated to be built in a pollution-burdened neighborhood in South Chicago."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/16/2021
#SEJSpotlight: Greg M. Schwartz, Freelance Investigative Reporter
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Flexibility in the Face of the Unexpected
When a Chicago-based freelancer was just about to hit the road to report a three-part story and TV segment on the potential impacts of two proposed copper mines in the Great Lakes basin, there was a little hitch: The COVID-19 pandemic hit. The new FEJ StoryLog has the story of how Lorraine Boissoneault found the flexibility to complete her grant-supported project.
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Replacing the Nation’s Lead Lines Begins With Locating Them
One especially ambitious element of the Biden infrastructure plan would swap out millions of lead pipes. It’s a massive, costly endeavor, but could remove from the country’s water supply a neurotoxin that harms human health, especially of kids and the poor. TipSheet looks at the new plan and offers ideas for reporting the story in your area.
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