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Speaker 1: Law host Doing Grosso discusses the future of the Dakota

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Speaker 1: Access Pipeline after a judge allowed the U. S. Army

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Speaker 1: Corps of Engineers to move forward with a full environmental

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Speaker 1: study of the three point eight billion dollar pipeline. She

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Speaker 1: speaks with Charles Warren, share of the environmental law practice

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Speaker 1: at Kramer Levin Chuck. There has been a lot of

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Speaker 1: litigation in this case. What is the legal question in

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Speaker 1: this last motion? Well, I think the legal question here

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Speaker 1: is whether the Army can basically now require an environmental

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Speaker 1: impact statement, you know, after it had already been reviewed

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Speaker 1: by the Corps of Engineers and they indicated that were

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Speaker 1: not adverse environ mental impacts, and then it was reversed

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Speaker 1: essentially at the Assistant Secretary of the Army level for

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Speaker 1: Civil Works and and they asked for this environmental study,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's going to be that's going to

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Speaker 1: be one of the issues that they raise here. Trump,

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Speaker 1: whose transition team has said in memos that he supports

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Speaker 1: the pipeline's completion, could he seek to reverse the Army's

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Speaker 1: decision to continue to do the study. He could do that,

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Speaker 1: It's not that easy. One safe now said all right,

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Speaker 1: we think that it's warranted that we do this study.

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Speaker 1: And I think that would bring a lawsuit if they

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Speaker 1: didn't suddenly say no, it isn't. But that conceivably could

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Speaker 1: happen because I think that the new administration is going

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Speaker 1: to going to want to proceed with this pipeline, and

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Speaker 1: this is just sort of the last link of it.

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Speaker 1: And the issue will be it could be delayed for

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Speaker 1: a long time from their standpoint if you go through

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Speaker 1: with this environmental impact. Ultimately, will the pipeline be pleaded

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Speaker 1: in your opinion, I think it will be. Yes. I

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Speaker 1: mean it may they may have to move. They may

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Speaker 1: have to move this last segment, but I think there's

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Speaker 1: places that they can move it. But but it's they

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Speaker 1: built so much of it. I think it'd be unlikely

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Speaker 1: that it's not completed. And if the Trump administration tries

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Speaker 1: to move forward with it in this particular place, who

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Speaker 1: can sue? Is it the Indian tribes that can sue?

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Speaker 1: Are there other people that can sue? Yeah? I think

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Speaker 1: the Indian tribes, and then there are others probably who

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Speaker 1: have joined with them to the extent that they have

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Speaker 1: standing to sue. They probably could, But I think there'll

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Speaker 1: be a number of lawsuits to say, hey, the judgment

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Speaker 1: was made that we hadn't taken a complete look at this,

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Speaker 1: and we need to do more. And now you just

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Speaker 1: can't turn around on a dime with no basis, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, change your change your position. That's Charles Warren's

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Speaker 1: share of the environmental law break is at Cramer Levin

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