Trans-Pecos Pipeline

The Franklin Mountains, which sit in El Paso, Texas, where the two pipelines will run through.
Yessenia Funes  May 4, 2017 3:38PM EDT

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. 
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.
Yessenia Funes  Feb 23, 2017 11:48AM EST

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?
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.
Yessenia Funes  Jan 31, 2017 2:20PM EST

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.”
Colorlines screenshot of natural gas pipeline explosion, taken from Spearman Police Department Facebook page on January 19, 2017
Yessenia Funes  Jan 19, 2017 4:49PM EST

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.
A water protector who has chosen to remain unnamed locks herself to a piece of construction equipment on January 12, 2017. She was not arrested.
Yessenia Funes  Jan 12, 2017 3:16PM EST

Texas Water Protector Locks Herself to Construction Equipment

Her action was in direct opposition to the Comanche Trail Pipeline, a 195-mile long natural gas pipeline in the Texas town of San Elizario.