A court in North Dakota has found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars over actions to combat the Dakota Access Pipeline. The environmental organization will be liable for around $660 million per the verdict readout in court, said interim executive director of Greenpeace USA Sushma Raman, in a statement shared through a spokesperson. That amount could put Greenpeace at risk of bankruptcy. The group vowed to fight the verdict. “This is the end of a chapter, but not the end of our fight,” Raman said. “Energy Transfer knows...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines raises questions about the viability of a proposed 2,500 mile (4,023-kilometer) project snaking through five Midwest states. Summit Carbon Solutions, the company behind the estimated $8.9 billion pipeline, vowed to keep pursuing the project despite South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden’s announcement Thursday that he had signed a bill into law that will make routing the line much more difficult. The law bans Summit from forcing South...

HAWLEY, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A local woman is advocating the community to own backyard chickens to combat the soaring prices of eggs, along with several other benefits. The Hanson family has been raising their own chickens in Hawley, Minnesota, for years. Heather Hanson, said, “The eggs just look a little bit nicer, they certainly taste a lot better, and just in general, you know they’re good, healthy nutrition.” Healthy, but expensive. In the midst of a bird flu outbreak, farmers are being forced to slaughter millions of chickens...

Backyard Chickens May Seem Like A Solution To The Rising Egg Prices But Experts Say Otherwise MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — I’m sure you’ve noticed egg prices continuing to rise. Some people have considered combatting the issue by having their own chickens. In May of 2017, the city of Fargo allowed its residents to keep four chickens in their backyards. Then the city of Moorhead followed suit in April of 2023 with the allowance of six chickens. The national average for egg prices sits at $4.15, and in Fargo, prices have...

Now that the Senate has confirmed him to run the Interior Department, Doug Burgum will have vast control over federal lands, including the issuance of oil and gas leases. When North Dakota’s petroleum association was going to hold a banquet honoring top fracking executives last year, it turned to Gov. Doug Burgum. The two-term Republican, President Trump’s choice to lead the Interior Department, co-hosted the event — at the governor’s mansion. And when energy industry lobbyists were looking for help taking on Biden administration greenhouse gas rules, they also turned...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department, a role overseeing millions of acres of federal land that will be key to President Donald Trump’s plans to boost U.S. fossil fuel production and “drill, baby, drill.” The vote was 79 to 18, with many Democrats joining all Republicans in supporting Burgum’s nomination for interior secretary. Trump has also tapped Burgum to serve as energy czar and chair of a White House energy council, a newly created role that does not require Senate...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republican administration’s ambitions to boost fossil fuel production. Burgum, 68, is an ultra-wealthy software industry entrepreneur who came from a small North Dakota farming community, where he worked at his family’s grain elevator. He served two terms as governor of the oil-rich state and launched a presidential campaign in 2023, but dropped out months later and quickly endorsed Trump.