Topic: Dakota Access pipeline

A federal judge ordered the shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline until an environmental review can be completed, handing a blow to the Trump administration and victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg departed the United States Wednesday for a climate change summit in Spain aboard a solar-powered catamaran, to avoid contributing to carbon emissions.

Oil prices lost ground Thursday morning after a rambunctious rally the day before.

Human Rights Watch said Thursday it was worried that lawsuits meant to muzzle environmental advocacy groups were inhibiting free speech.

President Donald Trump spoke Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md.

A federal judge ordered Dakota Access Pipeline operators and federal and tribal officials to coordinate an oil-spill response plan, court documents showed.

The sale of oil from the Bakken shale basin in North Dakota is in fact a "new reality," so long as market conditions are right, an analyst said.

The head Continental Resources, Harold Hamm, said the sale of North Dakota oil to China was the "new normal," through the move is complex, an analyst said.

State leaders in Minnesota heard from both sides of the debate over a multibillion dollar effort by Enbridge to expand a controversial crude oil pipeline.

Pipeline company Enbridge said it disagreed with an assessment on an oil pipeline overhaul in Minnesota, saying demand levels warrant improvements.