LANSING — The state of Michigan is dropping its federal lawsuit against oil company Enbridge over the Line 5 pipeline and will instead focus its efforts on a separate lawsuit that was filed in state court, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday.
The change in legal strategy follows a federal judge’s recent refusal to return the federal lawsuit to state court, where it had initially been filed.
Plaintiffs the state of Michigan, the governor and the Department of Natural Resources filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Grand Rapids. Defendants Enbridge Energy LP and related companies had moved the case to federal court from Ingham County Circuit Court in November 2020, less than two weeks after it was filed.
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