A Power Line Debate Pits Environmental Allies Against Each Other in the Upper Midwest

Construction on the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line is nearly complete, but a legal challenge has stopped work on the final two two miles in Iowa. Pictured is a different portion of the line when it was still being built. Credit: American Transmission Co.

A lawsuit that has paused the completion of a power line in the Upper Midwest is part of a long-running conflict that has exposed differences within the environmental and clean energy advocacy communities. Developers of the $649 million Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line have built about 100 of the project’s 102 miles, but they stopped work … Continue reading A Power Line Debate Pits Environmental Allies Against Each Other in the Upper Midwest

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