Topic: Dakota Access pipeline

The plan to build a 2,000-mile carbon pipeline through five Midwestern states has sparked heated debate in Iowa, where hundreds of landowners and expert witnesses are facing off over politics and property rights.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an appeal by the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline seeking to overturn a ruling ordering an environmental review for the controversial project.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe will no longer act as a cooperating agency for an environmental study of the Dakota Access Pipeline, its chairwoman announced, citing insufficient response plans to a potential oil spill.

The Biden administration on Friday indicated in court it will not shut down operation of the Dakota Access Pipeline while it conducts an environmental review.

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.