The same federal judge who ruled against President Trump’s deportation plans and is facing calls for his impeachment has ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers in the fight to close the Dakota Access Pipeline.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled the tribe has to wait until the Corps finished a key environmental study to bring another legal challenge against the agency. Standing Rock contends, in its lawsuit filed last fall, that the Corps is in violation of federal law by allowing the pipeline owned by Energy Transfer Co. to operate without an easement.
Energy Transfer, based in Dallas, also has a major office in Oklahoma City.
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