skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Friday, March 29, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Natives, Environmentalists Protest in Houston Over Pipeline

play audio
Play

Friday, October 14, 2016   

HOUSTON – A coalition of environmental groups and Native American activists has taken protests over a controversial pipeline to the Houston offices of the company building the project.

Dressed in traditional tribal garb, chanting and dancing to native drums, dozens gathered this week at the headquarters of Energy Transfer Partners, the contractor building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to halt construction on the project.

Donna House, an organizer with the Navajo Chapter of the Black Mesa Water Coalition, said they gathered in Houston because it is the headquarters of the oil industry.

"Houston has had companies that have had incredibly destructive impact on Indian lands and in Native American natural resources, our sacred sites, our water," she said.

Protests in North Dakota, some of which have turned violent, have been aimed at blocking the 1,200-mile oil pipeline, which would cross native lands. In response to the Houston protest, Energy Transfer Partners issued a statement saying they are taking all necessary steps to protect cultural resources, the environment, and public safety.

In addition to Dakota Access, the groups in Houston were protesting another of the company's projects, the Trans-Pecos Pipeline in West Texas. House says that project runs through ancestral tribal lands and would endanger environmentally sensitive areas.

"It's important that Texas recognize that not only that they have the fossil-fuel industry here that's destructive, but also a pipeline that's going through lower income communities, people of color communities, and indigenous territories," she added.

After protests turned violent in North Dakota, a federal judge granted an injunction in September that temporarily stopped construction, but it was lifted last week. The federal government asked the company to voluntarily halt construction, but it has refused.


get more stories like this via email

more stories
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the popular abortion pill Mifepristone and will weigh in on whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was correct in how it can be dosed and prescribed. (Ascannio/Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Missouri residents are worried about future access to birth control. The latest survey from The Right Time, an initiative based in Missouri…


Social Issues

play sound

Wisconsin children from low-income families are now on track to get nutritious foods over the summer. Federal officials have approved the Badger …

Social Issues

play sound

Almost 2,900 people are unsheltered on any given night in the Beehive State. Gov. Spencer Cox is celebrating signing nine bills he says are geared …


The U.S. teaching workforce remains primarily white while the percentage of Black teachers has declined. However, the percentage of Asian and Latinx teachers is rising.(WavebreakMediaMicro/Adobestock)

Social Issues

play sound

Education advocates are calling on lawmakers to increase funding for programs to combat the teacher shortage. Around 37% of schools nationwide …

Environment

play sound

New York's Legislature is considering a bill to get clean-energy projects connected to the grid faster. It's called the RAPID Act, for "Renewable …

Social Issues

play sound

Earlier this month, a new Arizona Public Service rate hike went into effect and one senior advocacy group said those on a fixed income may struggle …

Social Issues

play sound

Michigan recently implemented a significant juvenile justice reform package following recommendations from a task force made up of prosecutors…

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021