Trump’s Dakota Access Pipeline Memo: What We Know Right Now
The White House didn’t release the text of the executive order at first.
Updated on January 24 at 2:45 p.m.
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the Secretary of the Army to expedite approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,100-mile pipeline linking the North Dakota oil fields to a river terminal in Illinois. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied final approval to the project late last year, after months of protests from the
