Law360, New York (May 18, 2012, 3:30 PM ET) -- Two Louisiana conservation groups on Wednesday asked a Washington federal judge to halt a pipeline project near the Ouachita River after a federal permitting agency shirked its responsibility to conduct a thorough assessment of the project and its impact on the waterway.
If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had taken a good look at the El Dorado Pipeline project, to run near the Arkansas-Louisiana border, the agency would have found it too destructive under the Clean Water Act mandates, according to the suit, filed in...
Enviros Ask To Halt Pipeline After Alleged Lax Permitting
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