Dakota Pipeline Asks High Court To Scrap Key NEPA Review Precedent

September 22, 2021
Operators of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) are urging the Supreme Court to scrap a key appellate decision allowing courts to order agencies to conduct detailed National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, rather than deferring to agency discretion on the issue, while also pushing to narrow the legal remedies for violating the NEPA statute. In a Sept. 20 petition for a writ of certiorari in Dakota Access LLC v. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al., the company revives...


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