A federal judge has postponed a hearing on the Dakota Access pipeline to give the Biden administration more time to decide how it wants to handle the embattled project.
The delay means questions about the fate of the oil pipeline from Energy Transfer LP will remain unanswered for now. American Indian tribes, environmentalists, and many Democrats are pressing President Joe Biden to shutter Dakota Access after an appeals court last month affirmed that a key easement was issued in violation of federal law.
Lawyers for the Army Corps of Engineers were scheduled to appear Wednesday in the U.S. District Court ...
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