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More than a decade of relentless resistance from tribes, activists, farmers, and local communities finally killed the pipeline that wouldn’t die.

Al Nash/Bureau of Land Management via AP hide caption toggle caption Al Nash/Bureau of Land Management via AP A storage yard is seen in Montana for pipe that was to be used in the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The developer has now canceled the controversial project. Al Nash/Bureau of Land Management via AP The company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline said Wednesday its officially terminating the project. TC Energy already...

Originally published on June 9, 2021 7:28 pm The company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline said Wednesday its officially terminating the project. TC Energy already had suspended construction in January when President Biden revoked a key cross-border presidential permit. The announcement ends a more than decade-long battle that came to signify the debate over whether fossil fuels should be left in the ground to address climate change. Environmentalists opposed the pipeline in p...

Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 Most Nebraskans are familiar with our unique state Capitol building in Lincoln, which was designed by New York architect Bertram Goodhue and built in four phases over 10 years. It was completed in 1932. What few residents probably know is that in 1922, just as Capitol construction was beginning, Goodhue also proposed a seven-block, wide avenue to create a beautiful north entrance to the new Capitol building. By 1937, Lincoln city leaders, along wit...

The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline said on Wednesday that it's terminating the project after more than a decade of fighting.

Conversations with members of the class of 2021 open a window on where America -- from Maine to California -- stands now and its future.

Joining us is Patty Loew, Bad River Ojibwe, a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. She’s also produced several

The nickname ‘The Natural State’ is not a misnomer – but beyond pretty nature, Arkansas offers exciting ways of accessing its physical beauty

Reuters 1/33 Jamari Prim, 18, who graduated a semester early and began taking classes at a local community college, relaxes with his teammates ahead of their step competition at Sanderson High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., April 3, 2021. After graduating a semester early from high school, Prim took classes at a community college. He will enroll at Winston-Salem State University in the fall. He plans to study sociology and justice, and he wants to one day open a youth community center...

Christopher Stone, Who Proposed Legal Rights for Trees, Dies at 83 A law review article he wrote in 1972 kick-started a worldwide movement to grant nature the same rights enjoyed by human beings. Christopher D. Stone in an undated photo. “I am quite seriously proposing,” he wrote in an influential article, “that we give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called ‘natural objects’ in the environment.”Credit...via USC Gould School of Law May 28, 2021, 5:13 p.m. ET Chr...