Late Sunday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline, a permit to drill underneath Lake Oahe on the Missouri River—officially halting construction on the pipeline.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s an incredible, incredible moment of grassroots organizing reaching the highest levels of government and effectuating change.”
— Tara Houska, national campaigns director for Honor the Earth
Text from democracynow.org
Art based on photos by Stephanie Keith/Reuters and Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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