PIPELINES:
• State and regional businesses form the Great Lakes Business Network to lobby lawmakers to close Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. (MLive)
• Enbridge may be set up for a “bruising legal battle” in Wisconsin after a Native American tribe voted against renewing land use agreements for the Line 5 pipeline there. (Reuters)
• Dakota Access activists are pushing for a patchwork of pipeline protests across the country. (Associated Press)
• A group of landowners file a federal lawsuit claiming the Dakota Access developer deceived them into accepting an unfair price for pipeline easements. (Forum News Service)
• Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is also President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, has resigned from the boards of two energy companies developing the Dakota Access pipeline. (Associated Press)