Army Corps Wrongfully Issued Permit for Oil Terminal, Groups Say

The US Army Corps of Engineers failed to consider several environmental impacts when issuing a Clean Water Act permit for the expansion of an oil terminal in Texas, indigenous groups told the Fifth Circuit.

The Corps violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the CWA by not taking a “hard look” at the indirect and cumulative impacts of the project, the Indigenous Peoples of the Coastal Bend, Karankawa Kadla Tribe of the Texas Gulf Coast, and Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association said Monday.

The Enbridge Ingleside Oil Terminal, formerly known as the Moda Terminal, is in San Patricio ...