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Eleven years after easements for a pipeline buried beneath the Bad River reservation in northern Wisconsin expired, five years after the tribe first sounded alarms over the risk of an imminent oil spill into their namesake river and eight months after a federal judge ordered a shutdown, Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge was back in federal court last week arguing that the flow of oil through its 71-year-old Line 5 pipeline be allowed to continue.
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Alabama’s Self-Proclaimed ‘AI Watchman’ Unseats Incumbent Public Service Commissioner
Jim Zeigler first served on the body nearly 50 years ago. Now the Republican is hoping his opposition to data centers will stave off a Democratic victory in November.
MOBILE, Ala.—Jim Zeigler didn’t have much time to celebrate.
Alabama’s Self-Proclaimed ‘AI Watchman’ Unseats Incumbent Public Service Commissioner
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Alabama Governor Names Four New PSC Members, Including Its First Two Black Appointees
Gov. Kay Ivey announced the appointments as a first step under new legislation expanding the state’s utilities regulator from three to seven seats in 2027.
The Alabama Public Service Commission has never had a Black commissioner in its 145-year history, but that’s about to change.
Alabama Governor Names Four New PSC Members, Including Its First Two Black Appointees
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The lawsuit alleges the county has known since at least 2023 that the landfill is leaching PFAS, a family of forever chemicals, into drinking water.
This story was published by the Border Belt Independent in collaboration with Inside Climate News.
‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination
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