The court rejected an appeal from the pipeline's developer and let stand a lower court ruling calling for a more thorough environmental review.
scored a major legal victory on Tuesday as the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the pipeline’s developers. That rejection means the court will let stand a lower court ruling which called for a more thorough environmental review andAdvertisementdetermined a federal permit granted to Energy Transfer by the Army Corps of Engineers was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.
“The litigation concerning the pipeline is over, but the fight continues,” Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman said in a statement. “We call on the administration to close the pipeline until a full safety and environmental review is complete. DAPL never should have been authorized in the first place, and this administration is failing to address the persistent illegality of this pipeline.”
Activists and members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have spoken out against the roughly 1,134-mile pipeline intended to transport crude from the
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