September 25, 2025
A Wisconsin federal judge has granted summary judgment to the federal government and two utility companies against all claims in a suit filed by conservationist groups that alleged that the government wrongfully approved a land exchange deal with the utilities so the companies could build part of a 101-mile transmission line project through a wildlife refuge.
June 21, 2024
The federal government and sparring environmental groups both called on a Wisconsin federal court to grant them judgment in litigation seeking to upend a land exchange that would allow a high-voltage transmission line to cross part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
March 22, 2024
A Wisconsin federal judge on Friday extended an order temporarily blocking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from executing a land swap that would allow the nearly completed Cardinal-Hickory Creek high-voltage transmission line to cross part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
March 21, 2024
Power companies and the U.S. government are asking a Wisconsin federal judge to reject conservation groups' bid to block a land swap allowing the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line to cross the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, with the judge putting any execution of the deal temporarily on hold in advance of a Friday hearing.
March 15, 2024
Conservation groups are asking a Wisconsin federal judge to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from executing a land swap that would let power companies run the Cardinal-Hickory Creek high-voltage transmission line across the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
March 07, 2024
Three environmental groups have accused the federal government of unlawfully allowing private developers to run a massive high-voltage transmission line through the protected Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, in violation of the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act.