A nearly $1.2-billion grant from the Federal Transit Administration to the Seattle-area Sound Transit agency marks the largest transit grant since Donald Trump became president.

Republican Kevin McIntyre, 58, the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, died Jan. 2.

New Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has asked for an opinion from Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) on whether legislation to keep Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac and form the new Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority is constitutional.