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Environmental issues, land rights, natural resource management and water protection efforts across Native communities.
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UTTC introduces first net-zero greenhouse at a tribal college

By Grace Fiori
North Dakotans call on state to deny permits for carbon capture project
By Grace Fiori
Tracey L. Wilkie
Sicangu Lakota citizens grow vision for future of food
By Grace Fiori
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Meet Grace Fiori: Buffalo Fire’s new environment and agriculture reporter
By Tracy L. Barnett
Grace in the fields
ShineThe Shine series explores limitations and solutions to government transparency in Indian Country.
Pollution knows no borders
Teck Coal’s Fording River coal mine
Regulators order Marathon Oil to pay $64.5M for 'illegal pollution' on Fort Berthold Reservation
'This fine just proves what the people of the Fort Berthold Indian reservation have known for a long time'
By Grace Fiori
Four Bears Flares
Native American voices are finally factoring into energy projects
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Northern Plains tribes get $135 million for solar power
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Pipeline protest trial ends, ruling still months out
Protests Continue At Standing Rock Sioux Reservation Over Dakota Pipeline Access Project
Indigenous leaders confront U.S. Government over Its uranium exploitation policies at historic IACHR hearing in D.C.
hearing convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) PRESS RELEASE
Native activist says treaty rights forgotten in DAPL trial
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Indigenous concerns surface in North Dakota v. Corps of Engineers federal DAPL lawsuit
By Talli Nauman
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Corps chose not to publicize environmental damage by DAPL protesters, official testifies
Deadline Looms For Standing Rock
Testimony shows Burgum didn’t want DAPL to escalate into a standoff
Deadline Looms For Standing Rock
Lakota tribes, grassroots organizers unite against ‘modern gold rush’ in Black Hills
By Talli Nauman
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Native lands lack clean water protections
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State advises anglers not to eat fish caught in 48-mile stretch of Yellowstone River
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EPA moves to strengthen air quality standards for oil and gas industry on Fort Berthold Reservation
Lisa Finley-Deville
BLM proposes changes to federal oil and gas leasing and bonding
Lisa Finley-Deville
Will the reduction of red tape put conservation success at risk?
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