The Obama administration said Sunday that it would deny an easement needed to complete the last leg of an oil pipeline across the Midwest, prompting cheers and whoops from opponents who have camped in the cold here. The victory could prove short-lived, however, since President-elect Donald Trump said days earlier that he supported the nearly 1,200-mile Dakota Access Pipeline. The $3.8 billion project, extending from North Dakota, across parts of South Dakota and Iowa and ending is Illinois, is nearly complete, except for a 1,100-foot crossing of the Missouri River reservoir. Protesters led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have been gathering near the site of the crossing at Lake Oahe and have argued that the pipeline endangers the tribe’s water supply and sacred sites. The pipeline’s builder, Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP, has said it completed all necessary permitting requirements for the projects and worked […]