If Pruitt has ended those, he's doing the right thing. That may not stop the policy from being overturned later by someone else, but it will be a welcome reprieve for anyone trying to make a living off the land, one way or another, and for those who don't as well.
Some of those 'big Enviro' groups were tangled up in the DAPL protests, carried out on predominantly fraudulent premises and distortion of what few facts existed. That cost the pipeline company millions of dollars a day, as well as the State of ND, royalty owners and oil companies, every day they kept the line from being completed. Not to mention millions of dollars in damage to highway infrastructure, law enforcement costs, construction equipment, livestock and surrounding farms, and disrupting the lives of a lot of people.
