North Dakota

Warming Trends: Butterflies Bounce Back, Growing Up Gay Amid High Plains Oil, Art Focuses on Plastic Production

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

How One Native American Tribe is Battling for Control Over Flaring

By Isaac Stone Simonelli, Maya Leachman and Andrew Onodera

Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part

By Dan Gearino

After a Clash Over Costs and Carbon, a Minnesota Utility Wants to Step Back from Its Main Electricity Supplier

By Dan Gearino

Despite One Big Dissent, Minnesota Utilities Approve of Coal Plant Sale. But Obstacles Remain

By Dan Gearino

Plan to Save North Dakota Coal Plant Faces Intense Backlash from Minnesotans Who Would Help Pay for It

By Dan Gearino

A Lifeline for a Coal Plant Gives Hope to a North Dakota Town. Others See It as a Boondoggle

By Dan Gearino

North Dakota, Using Taxpayer Funds, Bailed Out Oil and Gas Companies by Plugging Abandoned Wells

By Nicholas Kusnetz

When an Oil Company Profits From a Pipeline Running Beneath Tribal Land Without Consent, What’s Fair Compensation?

By Judy Fahys

The $16 Million Was Supposed to Clean Up Old Oil Wells; Instead, It’s Going to Frack New Ones

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Too Much Sun Degrades Coatings That Keep Pipes From Corroding, Risking Leaks, Spills and Explosions

By Phil McKenna

Inside Clean Energy: With Planned Closing of N.D. Coal Plant, Energy Transition Comes to Rural America

By Dan Gearino

'Saltwater' From Spill: Not What's in the Ocean

By Lisa Song

North Dakota: Fracking Waste Dumped in Waterways

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

With U.S. Shale Boom, Gas Flaring Surges

By Anna Driver and Bruce Nichols, Reuters

Neb. Senator Wants Oil Pipeline Away from Major Aquifer

By Elizabeth McGowan