4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil Fuels Industry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come. By Alexander C. Kaufman Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images A Native American environmental activist dances with an eagle feather in front of the construction site for Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline near Palisade, Minnesota on January 9, 2021. Dawn Goodwin spent her 50th birthday among towering pines and yellow birches whose tree rings make her lifespan seem like a child’s in comparison. But on that cool, overcast Saturday in December, the growling of construction trucks and chainsaws drowned out the natural soundscape of gushing freshwater and wind whispering between pine needles on the banks of the Mississippi River.