By Derek Hawkins and Juliet Eilperin for the Washington Post: Obama’s interview represents the most explicit remarks he has made on the simmering controversy. During a White House tribal conference in September the president offered an elliptical reference to the issue, telling hundreds of tribal representatives gathered in Washington, “I know that many of you… Read more »

By Elana Schor, for the Politico Pro Energy Whiteboard: An independent pipeline expert and outside adviser to the DOT found the Army Corps of Engineers’ review of the Dakota Access pipeline “seriously deficient” and unable to justify its conclusion that the project would not pose a potentially serious spill risk, according to a report released… Read more »

“I knew North Dakota state was planning something,” says Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair Dave Archambault II of the raid on a resistance camp Thursday by militarized police. “They set up a pre-hospital tent near the camp. … That was sending me signals this was going to get out of hand.” Archambault says he asked… Read more »

by Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Originally published on nytimes.com. On the same day that the armed Malheur militants were acquitted, I watched as riot police with military-grade weapons, tanks and helicopters rounded up hundreds of peaceful water protectors in North Dakota protesting an oil pipeline. The juxtaposition of these two events… Read more »

STANDING ROCK, ND — An independent expert hired by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has found that the government’s environmental assessment of the pipeline’s environmental impact was inadequate. With this new information, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reassess its conclusion that the pipeline… Read more »

Masked with a bandana, he looked at first like a water protector. Papers found in the car showed he was something else: private DAPL security. Early Friday morning, a man bearing an AR-15 rifle broke through a barricade and sped toward the Oceti Sakowin camp, where thousands are camped out to resist the Dakota Access… Read more »

Darryl Lies, from Douglas, North Dakota, said he came to the standoff “because of the violation of private property rights. And the use of one right to trample another is an abuse of our God-given and our country-given rights.”

Dear Secretary Clinton, We are the youth of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has a long-established opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline Project. The pipeline is a direct threat to our lands, our sacred sites, our water, and our future. Thousands of of Native Americans from more than 300 tribes spanning the continent have… Read more »