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In West Texas, a budding pipeline fight highlights activists' changing tactics

by Travis Bubenik
Sep 1, 2023
Pipeline opponents across the U.S. have taken to emphasizing the projects' impacts on private property rights.
Opponents of the Saguaro Connector pipeline hosted a community meeting this summer in Van Horn, Texas.
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Russia threatened to shut off its gas taps to Europe. Can it do that?

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Mar 15, 2022
If Russia stops sending natural gas to Europe, it'll have to send it somewhere else.
If Russia stops sending natural gas to Europe, it'll have to send it somewhere else.
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Pipeline firms seek to avoid cybersecurity mandates, despite Colonial hack

by Scott Tong
May 17, 2021
Companies don’t need to share information on outages with the government or others in the industry.
Electric power companies and airlines are required to report cybersecurity threats to the government. Why are pipeline companies exempt?
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$8 billion natural gas pipeline canceled, raising questions about fuel's future

by Scott Tong
Jul 6, 2020
With challenges from environmental groups and state governments, the idea of natural gas as a bridge fuel may be fading.
Climate activists protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in February.
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Reporter's notebook: a bitterly contested $8 billion pipeline along the Appalachian Trail

by Scott Tong
Feb 24, 2020
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case to be heard Monday.
Climate activist groups protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 24, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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What the FERC does and why it's not doing it

by Jed Kim
May 31, 2017
The federal agency has been hamstrung by slow appointments to key positions.
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North Dakota residents have mixed response to pipeline protest

by Marketplace Contributor
Oct 5, 2016
Ongoing protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline is putting some locals on edge.
Protestors camp in tents and tepees to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota
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A single pipeline leak slows the Southeast

by Jed Kim
Sep 19, 2016
Many kinds of disconnects impact pipelines these days: some physical, others cognitive.
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What you need to know about the Dakota Access pipeline fight

by Tony Wagner
Sep 13, 2016
Explore the pipeline's path with our interactive map.
Demonstrators chant as they gather in front of the White House in Washington, DC, September 13, 2016, to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Oil train traffic is down — for market reasons

by Jed Kim
Aug 24, 2016
Economics are proving more powerful than protest in stifling crude-by-rail shipments.
At its peak, in October 2014, trains leaving the Bakken region of North Dakota moved more than 29 million barrels.
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