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Defeated oil lease sale was a reckless rush to sacrifice Montana’s public lands to the Trump Administration’s “energy dominance” agenda

Six amicus (friend of the court) briefs representing oil companies, industry groups, and the state of North Dakota, supporting requests by the Army Corps and Dakota Access to allow the pipeline to continue to operate while a full Environmental Impact Statement is prepared.

Asks the Court to allow the pipeline to continue to operate while a full Environmental Impact Statement is prepared, as required by the Court’s earlier decision. Dakota Access, LLC, breathtakingly calls DAPL the safest pipeline in the world, relying on secretive information that it has shielded from any public scrutiny.

On whether the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ February 8, 2017, decision granting an easement to allow a portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline under Corps-managed lands at Lake Oahe should be vacated while the Corps conducts additional environmental review consistent with this Court’s opinion