4 h. ago North Dakota enacts nation's first law shielding Roundup's maker from some cancer lawsuits

North Dakota has become the first state to enact a law that could shield the maker of the popular Roundup brand of weedkiller from lawsuits

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26 h. ago Judge rules federal government owes nearly $28 million to North Dakota for pipeline protests

A federal judge on Wednesday found the U.S. government liable to the state of North Dakota for more than $28 million in the state's lawsuit for recouping millions of dollars for policing the protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline

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4 d. ago More pharmacies offer to speed prescription deliveries to customers

America’s two largest retailers want to deliver prescriptions to your doorstep, sometimes in a matter of hours

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9 d. ago A strong solar storm heads to Earth. Here's what to know about northern lights

A strong solar storm is headed to Earth and this could cause colorful aurora displays in parts of the United States

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1 week ago Company plans to restart Keystone Pipeline after oil spill in rural North Dakota

The operator of the Keystone oil pipeline planned to restart the system after a spill onto farmland in North Dakota last week shut down the line

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1 week ago Regulators order corrective action as Keystone Pipeline operators aim to restore service

Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota

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2 w. ago Company says thousands of gallons of oil have been recovered from a pipeline spill in North Dakota

Workers have recovered thousands of gallons of crude oil from an underground pipeline spill on North Dakota farmland

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2 w. ago Cleanup underway of the Keystone oil pipeline spill in North Dakota

Trucks and workers started a cleanup effort at the site of a spill of the Keystone oil pipeline in rural North Dakota

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2 w. ago A pipeline company filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners. Now its project is threatened

The company behind a massive proposed carbon pipeline in the Midwestern U.S. filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners in recent years

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2 w. ago The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline continues its troubled history

The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday continues the troubled history of the 15-year-old pipeline

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2 w. ago Weedkiller maker asks US Supreme Court to block lawsuits claiming it failed to warn about cancer

Global chemical manufacturer Bayer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to halt thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn a popular weedkiller could case cancer

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2 w. ago Sex abuse trial of former 'Dances with Wolves' actor in Nevada is again postponed

The sex abuse trial of former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in Nevada has again been postponed

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2 w. ago British drugs giant accused of hiding link between heartburn medicine and cancer

Zantac went on sale in the UK in 1981. But in 2019, GSK withdrew it in the UK and US over fears that the ingredient ranitidine created a carcinogenic chemical

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2 w. ago $2M deal reached in lawsuit over young woman's death at North Dakota jail in 2020

A $2 million agreement has been reached in the death of a young woman at a North Dakota jail in 2020

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3 w. ago North Dakota mayor resigns after sending lewd video to city attorney by mistake

The mayor of Minot, North Dakota, has resigned after an investigation into him sending a lewd video to the city attorney by mistake

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3 w. ago North Dakota senator’s son gets probation added to the prison term he's serving over a deadly crash

North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer’s adult son, who is already serving a lengthy prison term in the death of a sheriff’s deputy during a chase, has been sentenced to additional probation

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3 w. ago I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trialThe stunning $667m verdict against Greenpeace last week is a direct attack on the climate movement, Indigenous peoples and the first amendment.The North Dakota case is so deeply flawed – at its core, the trial was really about crushing dissent – that I believe there is a good chance it will be reversed on appeal and ultimately backfire against the Energy Transfer pipeline company. Continue reading...

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