July 09, 2019
Permits issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for a 160-mile-long crude oil pipeline should be vacated because the agency "illegally rubber stamped" risk assessments without properly evaluating the project's impact, an environmental group told a Louisiana federal court.
February 12, 2019
A Louisiana federal judge has denied a request by a coalition of environmental groups to amend their suit challenging a roughly 160-mile crude oil pipeline, saying an appeals court decision overturning an injunction in the case already governed the issues the environmentalists wanted to address.
March 08, 2018
A Louisiana federal judge on Wednesday refused to shelve her block on construction of a crude oil pipeline connected to the controversial Dakota Access pipeline while it is appealed to the Fifth Circuit, saying the project's developers are essentially asking her to reverse her ruling.
March 01, 2018
The developer of a crude oil pipeline connected to the controversial Dakota Access pipeline urged a Louisiana federal judge on Thursday to put on hold her ruling blocking its construction while the company challenges that decision at the Fifth Circuit.
February 28, 2018
Flaws in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' environmental review and irreparable environmental harms to Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin are enough reason to block construction through the basin of a crude oil pipeline connected to the Dakota Access pipeline, a Louisiana federal judge said Tuesday.
February 26, 2018
Developers of a crude oil pipeline connected to the controversial Dakota Access pipeline on Monday appealed to the Fifth Circuit a Louisiana federal judge's decision to block its construction while she considers challenges to the project and urged the lower court to put its ruling on hold during an appeal.
January 30, 2018
Environmental groups say their argument that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrongly permitted a crude oil pipeline connected to the controversial Dakota Access pipeline is strong enough to warrant blocking the project's construction while their legal challenge plays out, but a Louisiana federal judge thought otherwise Tuesday.
January 11, 2018
The Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance and other environmental groups filed suit in Louisiana federal court Thursday opposing a recent decision allowing the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to move forward with a connecting pipeline that the challengers say would threaten the country's largest river swamp.