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Big Win for Dakota Pipeline Opponents, But Bigger Battle Looms

Inside Climate News: Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline won an important victory on Sunday when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the final permission to cross Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. But even as Native American protesters celebrated, they acknowledged the larger battle is far from won.

The Army Corps' decision keeps the pipeline from crossing a spot the tribe has vowed to protect, and called for a more comprehensive environmental review of alternative routes. But an incoming Trump administration could not only reverse this decision, but could also strike back at a core environmental law that has governed fights like this for more than half a century.

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