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Environmental Groups Appeal Illinois Approval of DAPL Expansion

11/16/2020

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Environmental groups are appealing a decision made last month by Illinois regulators to allow the expansion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL), according to documents filed with the state. Pipe staged along the right-of-way during Dakota Access Pipeline construction. (photo: DAPL) The Illinois Commerce Commission last month voted to approve an application to roughly double the capacity of Energy Transfer LP's 557,000 barrel-per-day crude oil pipeline after legal pushback by environmental groups delayed the vote by about a year. Save Our Illinois Land and Sierra Club, which have led the fight to block the project, filed an application Friday for a rehearing w

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