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.

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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