Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline review
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In a decision the Standing Rock Sioux and their supporters lauded as a potential turning point, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to conduct additional environmental reviews of the Dakota Access pipeline, renewing the possibility it could be shuttered at a later date.
Theruling is the latest in the back-and-forth legal battlesbetween the Native Americantribe and the federalgovernment over the 1,170-mile pipeline that stretchesfrom the Dakotas to Patoka,Ill., and began transporting crude oil this spring.
Lastyear, the Obama administrationblocked the completionof the pipeline, butin January, President DonaldTrump signed an executiveorder giving the green light for its completion.
Last week, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that although the Army Corps of Engineers “substantially complied” with federal laws in its mandated environmental reviews of the pipeline, “it did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline’s effects are likely to be highly controversial.”
Border patrol raid
PHOENIX— The Border Patrol raided a humanitarian aid group’s base camp in the Southern Arizona desert on Thursday and arrested four men who had crossed into the United States illegally, officials with Customs and Border Protection said.
Volunteers with the group, No More Deaths, which gives water and firstaid care to migrants, said the men were from Mexico and were receiving emergency medical care at the camp, which had been raided by agents in the past. But this was the first time border agents had used a search warrant to gain entry, the group said in a statement, suggesting a change in strategy by the Border Patrol leadership in the region at a time when temperatures are soaring. Despite a history of tense relations with No More Deaths, the agency had previously abided by an informal, Obama-era agreement allowing migrants to seek medical help at the camp without fear of arrest.
Legionnaires’ outbreak
NEWYORK — One person is dead and six other people have been sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the city health department announced Friday. The patients with the bacterial infection, which is typically contracted through contaminated water, fell ill within the past 11 days in the Lenox Hill neighborhood, said the agency, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Four remain hospitalized, and two have recovered and been released. The person who died was over 90, according to the department, and suffered from other health problems. The department has begun an investigation of air-conditioning equipment in the neighborhood, looking for signs of the Legionella bacteria.
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