Agencies’ Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Line Review Upheld

Conservation groups lost their bid to stop a high-voltage transmission line going through a wildlife refuge after a federal court granted the US government summary judgment.

The groups didn’t show the US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Rural Utilities Service violated any laws, Judge William M. Conley of the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin said Wednesday.

Conley prefaced the finding by saying “the court is sympathetic to plaintiffs’ arguments that the Utilities and Federal Defendants have found a loophole” in the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act to let the project ...