Sioux Tribe Files Suit To Stop Pipeline Work Pending Treaty, Water Rights Study

(February 15, 2017, 1:24 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another tribe of the Great Sioux Nation has challenged construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) under the Missouri River with the filing of a suit Feb. 11 in District of Columbia federal court to stop work on the pipeline until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes a once-promised environmental impact statement (EIS) “that fully analyzes the impacts of the DAPL to the Tribe’s Treaty” and water use rights (Oglala Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 1:17-cv-267, D. D.C.)....