Tribes ask that DAPL assessment be scrapped, call process ‘fatally flawed’

The leaders of three South Dakota Native American tribes told federal officials last week that an environmental impact study currently being conducted on the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL) by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should be stopped and started over, saying the process is "irredeemable" and "fatally flawed." The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last year revoked a…