Public Need Not Know Some Details In Pipeline Record, Federal Judge Says

Mealey's (April 10, 2017, 1:53 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on April 7 granted a protective order for five of 11 documents in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ administrative record of its permitting decisions for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), finding that there was good cause to redact certain information in the five documents based on public safety concerns (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 16-1534, D. D.C., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53357)....