This week marks the official kickoff of a long-brewing, high-stakes trial that could change the American environmental movement forever—and crush Americans’ First Amendment rights.

The environmental group, battling a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, told the North Dakota Supreme Court it can’t get a fair trial.

Energy Transfer, which owns the Dakota Access Pipeline, is seeking $300 million, a sum that Greenpeace says could bankrupt the storied environmental group.

Nick Tilsen’s deposition was the latest testimony heard by the nine-person jury in the marathon trial between pipeline developer Energy Transfer and Greenpeace

A former Energy Transfer executive on Tuesday blamed political pressure for the federal government’s decision to delay a key permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline eight years ago.

If they can try to shut down Greenpeace, they’re going to shut down everybody,” says Indigenous activist Winona LaDuke.

A behemoth defamation lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against Greenpeace began its trial in a Mandan courtroom on Monday. Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, accuses Greenpeace of using underhanded means to ...

A Texas-based company claims the environmental advocacy group tried to delay construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline with protests.

The sleepy town of Mandan, North Dakota, with a population of just 25,000, might seem an unlikely backdrop for a titanic legal battle. Yet, within its unprepossessing courthouse, a zealous oil billionaire is taking on Greenpeace.

The request is the culmination of multiple unsuccessful attempts to convince Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion that Morton County is the wrong venue for the lawsuit.

The $300 million lawsuit deals with protests against a pipeline route at a Missouri River crossing north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

The attorneys for Energy Transfer began laying out their argument Wednesday as to why they believe the company is owed some $300 million in damages by Greenpeace, going back to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016.