Staff / TruthdigNov 24, 2016
The indigenous tribes gathered in North Dakota are showing us a path for the future based on respect, nonviolence, humility and love that should inspire us for the difficult times ahead. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigOct 14, 2016
A panel of federal judges has allowed construction of the controversial $3.8 billion DAPL project to proceed, but the resistance movement will not back down from the fossil-fuel industry and government authorities. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigSep 15, 2016
The Dakota Access pipeline story is critical to the fate of people and the planet. It's about climate change—and about indigenous rights conflicting with corporate and government power. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigAug 25, 2016
If indigenous activists manage to block the building of an oil line they consider a threat to ancestral lands, their success will be one small measure of justice in a line of injustices going back to the founding of this nation. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 24, 2016
More than 1,000 Native American activists have traveled to Sacred Stone Spirit Camp in North Dakota to stop the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Now the fight continues in federal court in Washington, D.C. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigAug 23, 2016
While most of the United States has been blinded by the presidential election spectacle, a grass-roots coalition has been fighting "the next Keystone XL” being pushed through—largely under the radar—by Big Carbon. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 19, 2016
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is heading a protest by Native Americans and their allies against the newly approved line. These opponents of the project say it could lead to contamination of the Missouri River and other devastating environmental impacts. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 19, 2009
Over four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a federal judge has ruled in favor of four plaintiffs from the vicinity of the city's Ninth Ward, finding that the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the damage incurred by the storm and awarding each plaintiff over $700,000. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 27, 2008
After the past weeks' disastrous floods, many in the rural Midwest are looking to the government not with gratitude but animosity. Folks in towns that requested levees back in 1993 were left, paradoxically, high and dry by the Army Corps of Engineers, which required small communities to pay more than $1 million for flood barriers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 5, 2006
In what officials are calling a "strategic pause," work on New Orleans' levees is at a standstill. The Army Corps of Engineers says it has been delayed by engineering, budget and local-government hurdles, but critics -- including some inside the corps -- say the agency is simply dragging its feet. (h/t: Crooks and Liars) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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