The Trump administration has reached a settlement with North Dakota over the costs of protests over the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.
The Justice Department said in a statement the agreement would provide “closure” for the people of the state who had been affected by the protests, which the administration described as sometimes rising “to the level of unlawfulness and confrontational violence.”
North Dakota sued the Army Corps of Engineers in 2019, alleging the agency had failed to take proper action against protests challenging federal approval and construction of the oil conduit in 2016 and 2017.
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The state sought to recoup $38 million in funds spent to police the protests led by environmental groups and local tribes.
