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    Court Rules Dakota Access Pipeline Must Be Emptied For Now

    A federal judge has ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to produce a full environmental review. Until then, oil must stop flowing through the controversial pipeline.
    by Laurel Wamsley Jul 06, 2020 2 minutes
    Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters, shown here during a demonstration in 2017, have opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline for years.

    Updated at 12:30 p.m.

    A federal judge has ruled that the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline must be emptied for now while the Army Corps of Engineers produces an environmental review.

    In a decision posted Monday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said that it was clear shutting down the

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