Environmental watchdogs, represented by the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, have asked a federal judge for a second preliminary injunction to block construction that violates ETP’s permit and has gone unchecked by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Energy Transfer Partners continues long-standing pattern of permit violations and environmental destruction in America’s largest wetlands

Plaintiffs Atchafalaya Basinkeeper et al. move for partial summary judgment on their National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act claims regarding the Army Corps of Engineers’ (“Corps”) evaluation of the risks and impacts of oil spills from the Bayou Bridge pipeline.

New evidence shows the Army Corps of Engineers failed to independently assess the risk of spills from a company with more than 500 spills, millions in fines and private property damage

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturns an order halting construction of the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline in the Atchafalaya River Basin. The ruling reverses U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick’s February order granting a preliminary injunction to halt construction on the portion of the Bayou Bridge pipeline that crosses the Atchafalaya Basin, a National Heritage Area famous for Louisiana crawfish production.

Construction to continue in the Atchafalaya Basin while lawsuit proceeds

The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline is digging on a new project in Louisiana, even after a court deemed its permit invalid.

Bayou Bridge pipeline causes further irreparable harm during peak crawfish season

Earthjustice and its clients won a huge victory when a federal judge shut down the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana; a federal appeals court will decide what comes next.

In The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit

Federal District Court Judge Shelly Dick halts the construction of the controversial Bayou Bridge Pipeline across the Atchafalaya Basin. Judge Dick found that the lawsuit filed by several groups—Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association (West), Gulf Restoration Network, Waterkeeper Alliance and Sierra Club, represented by lawyers with Earthjustice—raises serious concerns and that the 162-mile pipeline would irreparably harm the Atchafalaya Basin.

Crawfisherman Jody Meche’s family has lived off Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin for generations. Now he’s fighting to protect it—and his way of life—from a destructive oil pipeline.

Pipeline construction would “irreparably harm” Atchafalaya Basin

Federal judge will hear requests for preliminary injunction in Atchafalaya

The Atchafalaya Basin, the largest swamp ecosystem in North America, is one of the nation’s ecological crown jewels.

United States District Court For Middle District Of Louisiana

Declaration of Jan E. Hasselman in support of motion for temporary restraining order

The Bayou Bridge pipeline project proposes to connect the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, which transports volatile and explosive Bakken crude oil from North Dakota, to refineries in St. James Parish and export terminals, forming the southern leg of the Bakken Pipeline. Energy Transfer Partners owns both the Dakota Access Pipeline and the proposed Bayou Bridge…