The Trump administration has been handed a stunning defeat after a district court ruled Monday that the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline must shut down by August 5…
The Trump administration has been handed a stunning defeat after a district court ruled Monday that the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline must shut down by August 5 during an in-depth environmental review.
In what is being called a «rare shutdown» of an operating pipeline, the order does present a major win for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmental groups that have fought fiercely for years against the oil pipeline.
In the 24-page brief handed down by the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a key permit from the Army Corps of Engineers was scraped and the pipeline was ordered to end its three-year run of delivering oil out of North Dakota’s Bakken shale basin to its endpoint in Illinois within 30 days.
