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Dakota Access Pipeline

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

They’re also urging the president-elect to oppose the Line 3 pipeline through Minnesota, saying such oil infrastructure is incompatible with a new green economy.

By Ilana Cohen

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
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

Protesters oppose pipeline construction at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Oil Investors Call for Human Rights Risk Report After Standing Rock

By David Hasemyer

People protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline path under the Standing Rock tribe's water supply approach a police barricade. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Beyond Standing Rock: 'There Is a Real War Going On' for Environmental Justice

By Phil McKenna

Dakota Access Pipeline protests outside the White House. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Spill Response Plan, with Tribe's Input

By Phil McKenna

Standing Rock Souix Tribal Nation Chairman David Archambault II talks with President Obama during the Cannon Ball Flag Day Celebration in 2014. Credit: Jim Watson

Exclusive: Standing Rock Leader on Dakota Pipeline, Tribal Sovereignty & Being Voted Out

By Phil McKenna

Members of the Standing Rock tribe had protested the pipeline's route under their water supply, a lake they consider sacred. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Judge Deals Blow to Tribes in Dakota Access Pipeline Ruling

By Phil McKenna

Protesters at the Standing Rock Reservation

Judge Orders New Dakota Access Pipeline Review; Environmental Justice Cited

By Marianne Lavelle

Workers begin the long process of cleaning mud from a pipeline construction spill out of wetlands.

Dakota Pipeline Builder Under Fire for Ohio Spill: 8 Violations in 7 Weeks

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