June 16, 2017
Read more here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/dakota-access-standing-rock-sioux-victory-court/530427/. By Robinson Meyer.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won their first legal victory in its year-long battle against the Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday, when a D.C. district court ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not perform sufficient studies on the pipeline’s environmental consequences when it first approved its construction.
