Trump administration to approve final permit for Dakota Access pipeline

The Washington Post: The deputy secretary of the Army will grant the final permit needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Army declared in a court filing Tuesday, clearing the massive infrastructure project’s last bureaucratic hurdle.

The Army’s intention to grant a 30-year easement under North Dakota’s Lake Oahe, which came in a court filing over an ongoing federal environmental review of the controversial pipeline, was immediately hailed by congressional Republicans and decried by members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other opponents. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Army officials indicated that they were terminating a plan to prepare an environmental-impact statement on how the pipeline would affect land and water along its 1,170-mile route.

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