Dakota Access Pipeline

Military veterans walk onto a closed bridge to protest across from police protecting the Dakota Access oil pipeline site in Cannon Ball, N.D., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Judge rules federal government owes nearly $28 million to North Dakota for pipeline protests

A federal judge has found the U.S. government liable to the state of North Dakota for nearly $28 million in the state’s lawsuit for recouping money spent on policing the protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
April 24
Greenpeace representatives talk with reporters on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan, N.D. From left are Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman, Greenpeace USA Senior Legal Adviser Deepa Padmanabha, Greenpeace International General Counsel Kristin Casper, Greenpeace USA attorney Everett Jack Jr., Greenpeace Fund Inc. attorney Matt Kelly and Greenpeace USA Associate General Counsel Jay Meisel. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Greenpeace must pay over $660M in case over Dakota Access protest activities, jury finds

March 20
In this Thursday Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline stands in the background as a children sled down a hill in Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Pipeline company’s lawsuit against Greenpeace goes to a North Dakota jury

March 17
Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate, Nov. 21, 2016, on a long-closed bridge on a state highway near Cannon Ball., N.D. near their camp in southern North Dakota. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)

Greenpeace says a pipeline company’s lawsuit threatens the organization’s future

February 24
FILE - Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline stand on a burned-out truck, Nov. 21, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. North Dakota is set to take the federal government to trial on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, for the costs of responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the culmination of an unusual and drawn-out court fight. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)

Trial begins for North Dakota’s effort to recoup costs of policing Dakota Access pipeline protests

February 15, 2024

Native American activist Leonard Peltier spent 50 years in prison. Now he’s home in North Dakota

More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975. (AP Video: Mark Vancleave/Noreen Nasir)
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Judge throws out remaining claims in oil pipeline protester’s excessive-force lawsuit

July 31, 2024
FILE - Vanessa Dundon, of White Cone, Ariz., helps handle security, Oct. 24, 2016, at the Dakota Access oil pipeline protest in southern North Dakota. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a federal judge's 2021 decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline who alleged law enforcement officers used excessive force during a skirmish in 2016. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson, file)

Federal appeals court upholds judge’s dismissal of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters’ lawsuit

November 21, 2023
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Operations Division Chief Sheila Newman outlines procedures for spoken and written comments during a Dakota Access Pipeline public meeting at the Radisson Hotel in Bismarck, N.D. on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (Darren Gibbins/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Slight change to Dakota Access pipeline comment meeting format, Army Corps says after complaints

November 3, 2023
FILE - In this October 2016, file photo, construction continues on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Federal officials on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, released a draft environmental review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline without a recommendation from five options for the future of the line's controversial river crossing in North Dakota, proposals which include an extensive reroute miles upstream. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Feds leave future of Dakota Access pipeline’s controversial river crossing unclear in draft review

September 8, 2023

Braun, protester of Dakota Access pipeline, dies at 53

November 29, 2022

Woman gets 6 years in prison for damaging pipeline

September 23, 2022

Court upholds ‘terrorism’ sentencing of pipeline saboteur

June 6, 2022

State Supreme Court: Pipeline security records are public

June 3, 2022

North Dakota Supreme Court: DAPL documents are public

April 29, 2022

Appeals court revives part of pipeline protester’s lawsuit

March 18, 2022

Supreme Court won’t take Dakota Access Pipeline case

February 22, 2022

Judge refuses to delay release of disputed DAPL documents

January 22, 2022

North Dakota judge rules DAPL documents are public

January 4, 2022
FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2016, file photo, more than 500 clergy from across the country gather for a "Clergy for Standing Rock" march on N.D. Highway 1806 near Cannon Ball, N. D. A federal judge on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, has sided with local law enforcement in a case brought by Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrators alleging excessive use of force by police at a protest site in North Dakota in 2016. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Judge sides with law enforcement in pipeline protest suit

December 31, 2021

Pipeline documents case headed to North Dakota high court

December 1, 2021
In this April 26, 2020 photo Myron Dewey, a filmmaker and member of the Walker River Paiute Tribe, speaks out against a proposed expansion of the Fallon Naval Air Station during a public meeting in Fallon, Nev. Dewey, who helped draw worldwide attention to the concerns of Native Americans fighting an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation died Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, after his car crashed in rural Nevada. (Benjamin Spillman/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

Indigenous filmmaker’s ‘every breath’ a fight for his people

September 30, 2021
FILE - In this May 20, 2021, file photo, signs marking the Dakota Access Pipeline are posted north of Cannonball, N.D. and the Standing Rock Reservation. Texas-based Energy Transfer, the company that operates the Dakota Access oil pipeline, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling ordering additional environmental review, saying it puts the line at risk of being shut down. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Dakota Access asks high court to reverse pipeline decision

September 21, 2021
FILE - In this Oct. 2016 file photo, construction continues on the Dakota Access pipeline. Energy Transfer executives say more oil is being shipped through the Dakota Access Pipeline as its expansion becomes operational. The line can now transport 750,000 barrels of oil daily, which is 180,000 more than before. Energy Transfer is adding pump stations to boost the pipeline's horsepower. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File).

More oil shipped as Dakota Access Pipeline expansion starts

August 6, 2021

Regulators plan to fine pipeline operators for safety issues

July 23, 2021

Dakota Access lawsuit dismissed; future challenges possible

June 23, 2021

Munitions being detonated as evidence in pipeline lawsuit

May 3, 2021

Dakota Access pipeline wants review from US Supreme Court

April 29, 2021

Standing Rock disputes new figures by Dakota Access owners

April 25, 2021

Pipeline owner: Shutdown would cause dire financial effects

April 20, 2021

Dakota Access asks for full appeals court review on permit

April 14, 2021

Matriarch in fight against Dakota Access Pipeline has died

April 13, 2021
FILE - In this October 2016 file photo, construction continues on the Dakota Access pipeline. A hearing was scheduled for Friday, April 9, 2021, to determine whether the Dakota Access oil pipeline should be allowed to continue operating without a key permit while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an environmental review on the project. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Judge orders delay amid debate over Dakota Access pipeline

April 9, 2021

Veteran who fundraised for DAPL protest sues Bismarck, Hertz

March 27, 2021

Judge: Corps must decide next move on Dakota Access pipeline

January 27, 2021
FILE - In this May 9, 2015, file photo, workers unload pipes in Worthing, S.D., for the Dakota Access oil pipeline that stretches from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to Illinois. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, upheld the ruling of a district judge who ordered a full environmental impact review of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. Following a complaint by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in April 2020 that a more extensive review was necessary than the one already conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Court upholds order for Dakota Access environmental review

January 26, 2021
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