Tag: Standing Rock Sioux

"We are grateful and honored to accept the inaugural Henry A. Wallace Award and a grant from the Wallace Global Fund that will help us continue our resistance against the pipeline and transition to clean energy technologies like wind and solar."

Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline company that owns Dakota Access, has already been drilling under Lake Oahe for weeks.

Minneapolis and others are ready to follow.

Reporter Jenni Monet has been charged with criminal trespassing and rioting, but the bigger story is about the failure of journalism institutions to rally.

The original water protector camp has resolved to stay – even as Sioux tribe says no and Trump orders pipeline construction.

Now until Feb. 20 is the public’s chance to push for a full review of the pipeline’s climate impacts. Here’s what to do.

“We're never going to back down.”

“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”

As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.

In the meantime, organized resistance against DAPL continues.