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Pipeline

John Stossel is seen next to the names of various environmental groups | Stossel TV

Environmentalism

How Environmental Groups Use Hysteria To Get Rich—and Stop Progress

Most of Big E spends little on cleaning rivers or parks and far more on filing lawsuits.

John Stossel | 7.16.2025 6:47 AM

A pipeline goes up a hill, cutting through brush, with snowy mountains looming in the background. | DPST/Newscom

Regulation

Archaic Federal Law Keeps Alaskans From Using Abundant Natural Gas Reserves

The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.21.2024 7:00 AM

Administrative Law

Fourth Circuit Concedes to Congress on Mountain Valley Pipeline

The judges recognize that Congress ended their ability to review the Mountain Valley Pipeline, but they seem none too happy about it.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.12.2023 1:30 PM

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Saves Mountain Valley Pipeline from Fourth Circuit Stay

The Supreme Court vacated a stay entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.30.2023 1:55 PM

Supreme Court

Will SCOTUS Be the Mountain Valley Pipeline's MVP?

The Mountain Valley Pipeline's developers seek Supreme Court intervention to prevent the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from delaying its completion.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.17.2023 4:26 PM

Nord Stream pipelines sabotaged |  Fredrik Persson/Tt/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Reason Roundup

Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipelines?

Plus: Gov. Ron DeSantis gets accused of fair-weather fiscal responsibility, warrantless drone searches might be illegal, and Lizzo's flute playing sparks a fake controversy.

Christian Britschgi | 9.30.2022 9:42 AM

Climate change protest | Stossel TV

Energy & Environment

When Sri Lanka Banned Synthetic Fertilizers, the Country Imploded

Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.

John Stossel | 9.7.2022 5:05 PM

zumaamericasthirtyone058904-3 | Jim West/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Energy & Environment

Restricting Reliable Energy Sources Is Expensive and Dangerous

Pipelines work, while solar and wind energy often leave people in the dark.

Jason Hayes | 5.24.2021 1:30 PM

pipestopsnewscom | KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom

Infrastructure

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry Admits Pipelines Are Carbon-Delivery-Efficient

Building more and better energy infrastructure is the best guarantee against fuel and electricity disruptions.

Ronald Bailey | 5.13.2021 4:45 PM

zumaglobalten815350 | Robin Rayne/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Gasoline

The Colonial Gas Shortage Is Temporary, Bad Energy Policy Is Not

Making it easier to add energy capacity won’t prevent hacking hiccups, but it would help keep energy flowing.

Josiah Neeley | 5.12.2021 5:45 PM

xnaphotostwo368954 | Liu Jie Xinhua News Agency/Newscom

Gas Stations

Laws Against Price Gouging Won't Fix the Long Lines at the Gas Station

Don't punish businesses for raising prices during a crisis.

Eric Boehm | 5.12.2021 11:30 AM

PennEast

Property Rights

A Supreme Court Eminent Domain Case Both Sides Deserve to Lose

PennEast v. New Jersey features a clash between the power of eminent domain and state sovereign immunity.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.30.2021 5:55 PM

Manhattan Beach

Property Rights

Lessons of an Effort to Compensate Victims of an Unjust Use of Eminent Domain a Century after it Happened

Los Angeles County, California, plans to return land unjustly seized from a black family in 1924.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.22.2021 5:12 PM

Pipeline

Takings

New York's Highest Court Upholds Taking of Private Property for Pipeline that Might Never Get Built

The 4-2 ruling is reminiscent of the federal Supreme Court's dubious decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which also upheld a condemnation for a project that turned out to be a dud.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.27.2020 10:46 PM

Large image on homepages | Fibonacci Blue / Wikimedia Commons

North Dakota

Protester Trash and Debris Threaten Water Contamination at Dakota Access Pipeline

Clean-up efforts are in a race to beat the coming floods.

Lindsay Marchello | 2.16.2017 4:44 PM

Large image on homepages

North Dakota

Dakota Access Pipeline Easement Will Be Granted By Army

Regulation by presidential whim versus the rule of law

Ronald Bailey | 2.7.2017 5:15 PM

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Pipeline

Trump, Obama, and the Approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline

A sad example of how arbitrary politically motivated bureaucratic decisions are replacing the rule of law

Ronald Bailey | 2.1.2017 1:15 PM

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Pipeline

Army Corps of Engineers Halts Work on Dakota Access Pipeline

Standing Rock protesters succeed in blocking Bakken oil pipeline route

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2016 5:45 PM

Large image on homepages | Nima Taradji/Polaris/Newscom

North Dakota

140+ Arrested, 300+ Officers Reportedly Involved in Crack Down on Dakota Pipeline Protest Camp

Protesters set up multiple roadblock; police from at least six states are in the county.

Ed Krayewski | 10.28.2016 4:06 PM

Large image on homepages | Screenshot/Democracy Now

Protests

(UPDATED) Democracy Now Host Amy Goodman Faces 'Riot' Charges For Covering North Dakota Pipeline Protests

Prosecutor argues against Goodman's First Amendment rights because she sympathized with protesters.

Anthony Fisher | 10.17.2016 12:29 PM

Politics

Keystone XL is Dead! Long Live Keystone Light

Nick Sibilla | 1.24.2012 5:22 PM

Politics

Conflict Oil or Canadian Oil?

A second dispatch from Alberta's oil sands.

Ronald Bailey | 8.10.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

The Man-Made Miracle of Oil from Sand

A dispatch from Alberta's oil sands

Ronald Bailey | 8.9.2011 4:30 PM

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