"If this pipeline was too much of a contamination risk for clean waters in the northern route, why would they consider it OK now to put it near Native Americans and their waterways?" Ruiz asked in September.
Grijalva followed up with a letter to the White House calling on President Obama to halt construction of the pipeline. The September letter was signed by other leading progressive Democrats, including Rep. Barbara Lee of California, who has led both the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Progressive Caucus, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a former Democratic National Committee member.
Gabbard is set to join hundreds of veterans in a protest at Standing Rock the day before the Army Corps scheduled eviction of protesters from the site.
"Next weekend, the congresswoman will be joining thousands of veterans from across the country to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota who are protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through their tribal lands, with grave concerns about the contamination of their major water source," Gabbard's Press Secretary Emily Latimer told the Observer Monday.
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