Court rules against Dakota Access easement in win for tribe

摘要

A federal appeals court declined today to reinstate an easement for the Dakota Access pipeline in a big win forthe Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.The decision leaves the project vulnerable to being shut down by President Biden, who last week revoked apermit to allow the contentious Keystone XL pipeline to cross the U.S.-Canada border.On Dakota Access, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a lower court's decisionto ax the Army Corps of Engineers' approval for the pipeline to cross beneath Lake Oahe - a reservoir on theMissouri River in South Dakota - after finding that the agency's analysis of the risk of potential oil spills andleaks violated the National Environmental Policy Act.