Mealey's (October 10, 2022, 11:12 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Native American tribes and environmental groups lost their challenge to the replacement of a 282-mile section of crude oil pipeline in Minnesota and North Dakota when a District of Columbia federal judge on Oct. 7 granted the pipeline company and federal defendants summary judgment on environmental impact claims, finding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “complied with its obligations to assess the environmental consequences associated with its permits” for the project....