After a months-long protest by Native American groups and environmental activists, the US Army Corps of Engineers on Dec. 4 told Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault that the current route for the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota will be denied. “Today the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not be granting the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline,” Archambault said in a statement. “Instead, the Corps will be undertaking an environmental impact statement to look at possible alternatives routes. We wholeheartedly...