Dakota Access Shutdown to Cause Harm, Government Lawyers Warn

Government lawyers are still trying to ensure the Dakota Access pipeline isn’t forced to shut down, telling a federal court Friday that such a move would cause “near certain economic disruption.”

The new Army Corps of Engineers brief to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit comes in response to the latest effort by the Standing Rock Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux, and other tribes to halt operations on the oil project while the Army Corps conducts a new environmental analysis. The district court in July scrapped a key permit for the pipeline and ordered a new, in-depth ...