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  •  The Franklin Mountains, which sit in El Paso, Texas, where the two pipelines will run through.

    DAPL Developer Has 2 New Natural Gas Pipelines in West Texas

    After months of pushback from local Native and Latinx environmentalists, the Comanche Trail and Trans-Pecos pipelines are in service. 

    Yessenia Funes May 4, 2017 3:38PM EDT
    Campers set structures on fire in preparation of the Army Corp's 2 p.m. CT deadline to leave the Oceti Sakowin protest camp on February 22, 2017, in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

    What 4 Indigenous Women Have to Say About Standing Rock's Ongoing Fight

    Authorities are clearing out the Oceti Sakowin Camp, though water protectors remain. What does the end of the largest camp mean for the movement?

    Yessenia Funes Feb 23, 2017 11:48AM EST
    Loren Kerns / Flickr

    Natural Gas Pipeline Explodes in Texas

    People living more than 50 miles away felt it happen.

    Yessenia Funes Feb 16, 2017 11:22AM EST
    Fireworks fill the night sky above Oceti Sakowin Camp as activists celebrate after learning an easement had been denied for the Dakota Access Pipeline near the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 4, 2016, outside Cannon Ball, N.D.

    Indigenous Groups Prepare to Build Spiritual Camps Along Keystone XL Route

    Cheyenne River Sioux organizer Joye Braun: ”Attacks on our lands, sovereignty and health must stop.”

    Yessenia Funes Jan 31, 2017 2:20PM EST
    Destiny Willcuts, 16, attached to the bulldozer (left) and her before the action (right).

    Lakota Teen Arrested After Locking Herself to Pipeline Construction Equipment in Texas

    Destiny Willcuts is only 16, but she’s already protected water at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Now, she’s in Texas.

    Yessenia Funes Jan 30, 2017 11:28AM EST
    Colorlines screenshot of natural gas pipeline explosion, taken from Spearman Police Department Facebook page on January 19, 2017

    ICYMI: A Natural Gas Pipeline Exploded, And a Police Dashcam Caught It

    This explosion follows the controversy surrounding two pipelines currently being built in the state.

    Yessenia Funes Jan 19, 2017 4:49PM EST
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