Dakota Access Pipeline
Coverage of Dakota Access Pipeline in the Nexus archive.
- Environmental groups sue feds over blanket permit to fast-track pipelines
Environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a nationwide permit that fast-tracks oil and gas pipeline approvals without required environmental reviews under the Clean Water Act. The permit, used for projects like the Mountain Valley and Dakota Access pipelines, allows developers to bypass comprehensive reviews by treating large projects as multiple smaller ones.
- Vermont Conversation: Celebrating and defending protest, America’s founding principle
Annie Leonard and André Carothers, co-authors of 'Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It,' highlight the importance of protest as a foundational American principle and warn against anti-protest laws and corporate legal tactics like SLAPP lawsuits. They cite examples such as the 2015 Seattle 'kayaktivist' protests against Shell's Arctic drilling and the $345 million lawsuit against Greenpeace over Dakota Access Pipeline protests.