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Environmental & Energy

Aug. 19, 2020

The ongoing saga of the Dakota Access Pipeline

July was a tough month for the pipeline industry.

Melissa Malstrom

Associate
Hanson Bridgett

Melissa focuses her practice in environmental litigation and counseling; she represents a variety of clients in regulatory enforcement actions and litigation involving environmental, land use, and natural resource issues.

The ongoing saga of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Demonstrators protest against the continued construction efforts of the Dakota Access pipeline, on Market Street outside the offices of the Army Corps of Engineers in San Francisco, Nov. 15, 2016. (New York Times News Service)

July was a tough month for the pipeline industry, as Dominion and Duke Energy announced cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a district court in Montana appeared to invalidate Nationwide Permit 12 -- calling into question numerous pipeline projects approved under the permit (including Keystone XL) -- and a district court in D.C. ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline to be emptied and shutdown while further environmental review was conducted.

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