Greenpeace Is Ordered to Pay Energy Transfer, a Pipeline Company, $660 Million

A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded damages totaling more than $660 million to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict…

Greenpeace Faces Tough Start in Trial Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Access Pipeline protests did not bode well for the defense. Lawyers for Greenpeace said so themselves in a petition filed in…

‘Day of Reckoning’: Trial Over Greenpeace’s Role in Pipeline Protest Begins

Lawyers for the pipeline company Energy Transfer and Greenpeace fired their opening salvos in a North Dakota courtroom Wednesday morning in a civil trial that could bankrupt the storied environmental group. The suit revolves around the role Greenpeace played in…