To say 2024 was a terrible year for ranked-choice voting would be an understatement. Not only did six states ban it, but voters in six states also rejected it at the ballot box. Pro-RCV groups spent more than $100 million pushing those ballot initiatives, lavishly outspending opponents, yet they lost.... Read more
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration is continuing to reverse Biden administration energy policies, including its moratorium on new oil and natural gas lease sales on federal land and offshore waters.
In response to President Donald Trump’s executive... Read more
(The Center Square) - Amid major cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs, two U.S. senators drafted a bill that would boost health care for veterans in rural areas.
The Strengthening VA Patient Advocacy for Rural Veterans Act... Read more
(The Center Square) – Federal legislation allowing states to jam cellphones smuggled into prisons has won support from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and other attorneys general.
Mayes joined a bipartisan coalition that wrote a letter to majority and... Read more
(The Center Square) – Two military veterans seeking full GI education bill benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs have the support of 52 attorneys general.
An amicus brief, led by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, was filed in... Read more
(The Center Square) – A North Dakota jury of nine on Wednesday found environmental activist group Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a years-long lawsuit brought by Energy Transfer, the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline that became the subject of sometimes violent protests and international attention.
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(The Center Square) – A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found environmental activist group Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for its activities related to protests of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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(The Center Square) – Another year and it’ll be a decade since work began on the Dakota Access Pipeline, when local protests grew into a national phenomenon that residents of Morton County, North Dakota, will never forget.
Dakota Access,... Read more
(The Center Square) – A coalition of state attorneys general is filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging the court to lift a nationwide restraining order that is “preventing” the “immediate deportation” of "Tren de Aragua gang members."
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(The Center Square) – A jury of nine heard closing arguments Monday in the civil trial between Energy Transfer and Greenpeace over the Dakota Access Pipeline, taking up deliberations after a final rebuttal from Energy Transfer.
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In a stunning revelation, it has come to light that Greenpeace, a self-proclaimed environmental watchdog, has received taxpayer-funded support through the Tides Foundation, backed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This funding, meant for international aid and development, has instead fueled destructive campaigns against American energy independence, private property rights, and... Read more
(The Center Square) – The long-anticipated North Dakota lawsuit between Energy Transfer and Greenpeace is winding down, with both parties resting their cases Thursday.
Energy Transfer installed the Dakota Access Pipeline from 2016-2017 but was met with opposition in... Read more
(The Center Square) – In an ongoing trial over protests during the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Greenpeace brought in a critical witness Wednesday for questioning: Annie Leonard, Greenpeace USA’s executive director at the time of the protests.
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(The Center Square) – Attorneys for the builders of a 1,200 mile pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday questioned the validity of the testimony of a witness called to the stand by Greenpeace in defense of the environmental protest group's contributions to delays in finishing the pipeline project on time.
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(The Center Square) – A coalition of 21 attorneys general sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leadership in the U.S. Congress calling on them to put limits on DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence technology that has some experts worried about the national security threat to the U.S.
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(The Center Square) – A trial is underway in North Dakota in a lawsuit against Greenpeace over its support for protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Filed by Texas-based Energy Transfer, the lawsuit alleges Greenpeace in 2016 engaged in... Read more
(The Center Square) – Bitcoin and digital asset bills have been field in at least 31 state legislatures, according to a Bitcoin Laws website tracking state legislative filings. The website breaks down each bill filed and its progress in its respective chamber.
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(The Center Square) — New York is being sued by a group of Republican attorneys general over a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pony up money to the state for alleged damages caused by climate change.
The lawsuit,... Read more
(The Center Square) – Nineteen state attorneys general have joined Wisconsin’s Catholic Charities Bureau of Superior in challenging a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the charity does primarily secular work and thus must pay into the state’s unemployment fund.
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(The Center Square) – As temporary protection status for legal Haitian immigrants continues to strain infrastructure in Springfield, Ohio, attorneys general across the country want the status examined by Homeland Security Secretary nominee Kristi Noem.
The Republican attorneys general,... Read more
