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21 Arrested During Peaceful Prayer Ceremony at Standing Rock

21 Arrested During Peaceful Prayer Ceremony at Standing Rock

The Morton County Sheriff’s Department, whose officers used mace and unleashed dogs on Dakota Access Pipeline protestors earlier this month, sent in armored vehicles and arrested 21 people Wednesday at two sites. But a video released by those at the Sacred Ground Camp shows unarmed protestors conducting a prayer ceremony involving the planting of willow […]

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    21 Arrested During Peaceful Prayer Ceremony at Standing Rock

    21 Arrested During Peaceful Prayer Ceremony at Standing Rock

    The Morton County Sheriff’s Department, whose officers used mace and unleashed dogs on Dakota Access Pipeline protestors earlier this month, sent in armored vehicles and arrested 21 people Wednesday at two sites. But a video released by those at the Sacred Ground Camp shows unarmed protestors conducting a prayer ceremony involving the planting of willow […]

    EPA Must ‘Correct Top Claim in Major Fracking Study’

    EPA Must ‘Correct Top Claim in Major Fracking Study’

    Led by Food & Water Watch, more than 200 public interest and environmental groups sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, urging the agency to heed the recommendation of its own independent Science Advisory Board (SAB) and clarify the seemingly unsupported top-line finding of the June 2015 draft fracking report. EPA […]