Gretchen Whitmer loses at Supreme Court over Line 5 pipeline - The Midwesterner

Gretchen Whitmer loses at Supreme Court over Line 5 pipeline - The Midwesterner

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the Whitmer administration in its yearslong effort to shut down Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline. The appeal centered on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s claim to sovereign immunity from a lawsuit filed by Enbridge to maintain operations of Line 5, which was repeatedly rejected by lower courts. The case is one of several in Michigan and Wisconsin involving the 70-year-old pipeline that …