Jonathon Berman, (202) 297-7533, jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org
Washington, DC – Today, Donald Trump’s Army Corps of Engineers cancelled the ongoing environmental impact review for the Dakota Access Pipeline and notified Congress that it has granted the final easement to allow the project to be completed.
In December of 2016, the Obama administration ordered an environmental review of the pipeline to study the effect it would have on the Standing Rock Sioux’s land and Lake Oahe, the body of water the pipeline would cut through. The notice of intent to complete this needed review was published in the Federal Register in January of this year, but the study has not been completed.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
“By putting corporate polluter profits above the people’s well-being, future, and access to clean, safe drinking water, Donald Trump is once again showing where his priorities lie. America’s president should serve the people -- not Big Oil -- and the movement that has captured the nation’s attention will continue to mobilize against Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.
“Donald Trump’s dangerous and legally questionable attempt to ignore the environmental review will be met with fierce resistance by a broad coalition of 300 tribes and millions of Americans in the court and on the streets.
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