Dakota Access oil pipeline

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Opposition to the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has boosted efforts to persuade banks to stop supporting projects that might harm the environment or tread on indigenous rights. But calling the divest movement a success might be a stretch...

BELLINGHAM  (AP) — A sheriff's search warrant in northwestern Washington that sought private Facebook data as part of an investigation into a Dakota Access oil pipeline protest has been withdrawn after an American Civil Liberties Union challenge...

BELLINGHAM  (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a sheriff's search warrant in northwestern Washington that seeks private Facebook data as part of an investigation into a Dakota Access oil pipeline protest. The ACLU in Seattle filed the motion Wednesday to quash the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office warrant for private messages and other data on the Bellingham #NoDAPL Coalition F

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Times reports that several hundred people rallied downtown to protest President Donald Trump's decision to advance the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Army decided last year to explore alternate routes for the Dakota pipeline after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters said the pipeline threatened drinking water and Native American cultural