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A decade after Standing Rock protests, Dakota Access oil pipeline segment gets OK | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
NORTH DAKOTA Pipeline segment OK’d BISMARCK — Federal officials on May 21 gave final approval for the Dakota Access oil pipeline to continue operating its contentious Missouri River crossing, an outcome that comes nearly a decade after boisterous protests against the project on the North Dakota prairie. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to…
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Democrat Joe Salazar endorsed by Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution group for attorney general
Our Revolution, the national progressive organization spun off from the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, is getting behind Democrat Joe Salazar and his campaign for Colorado attorney general, the Thornton lawmaker announced Wednesday. “That’s really big for this campaign,” Salazar said in a Facebook Live video unveiling the endorsement, which he added he’d learned about Tuesday…
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Smith: To Standing Rock
“What now?” my son, Jay asked. It was Sunday, Dec. 5, and we were just north of Dilia, New Mexico, where he has a small farm and where we had loaded his Toyota Tundra with firewood. We were preparing to head out to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota but had just heard…