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Dakota Access Pipeline

Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

Over the past decade, there have been more than 6,400 attacks on human rights defenders, with three-fourths carried out against environmental defenders.

By Katie Surma

 Human rights attorney Alejandra Gonza (right) stands with Brenda Díaz Valencia, who is holding a photo of her father, Antonio Díaz Valencia, and his colleague Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 3, 2024. The two men disappeared after criticizing mining practices in Mexico. Credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images
A Native American protestor confronts a private security contractor at a work site for the Dakota Access Pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in September 2016. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

What a $660 Million Verdict Means for Greenpeace and the Environmental Movement

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Demonstrators march to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota on Feb. 22, 2017. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on June 22 in Philadelphia. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Trump’s Environmental Impact Endures, at Home and Around the World

By Marianne Lavelle
Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

New Federal Anti-SLAPP Legislation Would Protect Activists and Whistleblowers From Abusive Lawsuits

By Alleen Brown
A sign is seen at Colonial Pipeline Baltimore Delivery in Baltimore, Maryland on May 10, 2021. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Biden’s Pipeline Dilemma: How to Build a Clean Energy Future While Shoring Up the Present’s Carbon-Intensive Infrastructure

By Marianne Lavelle
Indigenous groups and opponents of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project protest its construction across northern Minnesota. Credit: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Driven by Industry, More States Are Passing Tough Laws Aimed at Pipeline Protesters

By Nicholas Kusnetz
People gather in front of the White House during the Native Nations Rise protest on March 10, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Native tribes from around the US gathered for four days of protest against the administration of President Donald Trump and the Dakota A

Biden Has Promised to Kill the Keystone XL Pipeline. Activists Hope He’ll Nix Dakota Access, Too

By Ilana Cohen
Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot on Oct. 14, 2014 outside Gascoyne, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Climate Activists See ‘New Era’ After Three Major Oil and Gas Pipeline Defeats

By Marianne Lavelle
A protester holds a sign during a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline on March 10, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

A Federal Court Delivers a Victory for Sioux Tribe, Another Blow for the Dakota Access Pipeline

By Phil McKenna
Pipeline construction. Credit: Robert Nicklesberg/Getty Images

2020: A Year of Pipeline Court Fights, with One Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court

By Phil McKenna
Greenpeace protesters shutdown the Houston Ship Channel for several hours on Sept. 12 by hanging from a bridge. Credit: Greenpeace

Texas Charges Oil Port Protesters Under New Fossil Fuel Protection Law

By Nicholas Kusnetz
In 2017, after President Donald Trump cleared the way for the Dakota Access pipeline to be built, thousands of people joined members of the Standing Rock Tribe in a protest march in Washington, D.C.Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Standing Rock Asks Court to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline as Company Plans to Double Capacity

By Phil McKenna
Two boys look at a smartphone in front of their house next to a coal fired power plant on the outskirts of Beijing. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

How Much Global Warming Is Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Locking In?

By Phil McKenna
Native American protestors are confronted by security during a demonstration in 2016 against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, which they will pollute water supplies for the Standing Rock Reservation just downstream. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Im

ACLU Fears Protest Crackdowns, Surveillance Already Being Planned for Keystone XL

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, a former chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, stands near the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp in 2016. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Tribe Says Army Corps Stonewalling on Dakota Access Pipeline Report, Oil Spill Risk

By Phil McKenna
Credit: Paul Horn/InsideClimate News

How Energy Companies and Their Allies Are Turning the Law Against Protesters

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, a Standing Rock Tribe spokesman, stands near the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp in 2016. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Standing Rock: Dakota Access Pipeline Leak Technology Can't Detect All Spills

By Phil McKenna
After seeing the treatment of the Dakota Access pipeline protesters, a group of Marathon investors filed a shareholder resolution that called on the oil company to explain how it weighs environmental and social risks. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Marathon Reaches Deal with Investors on Human Rights. Standing Rock Hoped for More.

By David Hasemyer

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