{"id":67588,"date":"2026-02-27T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/north-dakota-judge-finalizes-345m-judgment-against-greenpeace-in-pipeline-case\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:57:10","slug":"north-dakota-judge-finalizes-345m-judgment-against-greenpeace-in-pipeline-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/north-dakota-judge-finalizes-345m-judgment-against-greenpeace-in-pipeline-case\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota judge finalizes $345m judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge slashed a $667m damages award to Energy Transfer over Greenpeace\u2019s role in Dakota Access Pipeline protests<\/p>\n<p>A North Dakota judge on Friday finalized a $345m judgment against Greenpeace in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/ET.N\">(ET.N)<\/a> over the environmental group\u2019s role in protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/legaldocs\/egvbekarwpq\/FINAL%20JUDGMENT_DocumentFragment_41648675.pdf\">final judgment<\/a> by judge James Gion was in line with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/us-judge-cuts-standing-rock-verdict-against-greenpeace-345-million-2025-10-30\/\">decision<\/a> he issued in October, in which he slashed by almost half a damages award of about $667m that a jury had awarded Energy Transfer in March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/north-dakota-greenpeace-access-pipeline-energy-transfer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge slashed a $667m damages award to Energy Transfer over Greenpeace\u2019s role in Dakota Access Pipeline protests A North Dakota judge on Friday finalized a $345m judgment against Greenpeace in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer (ET.N) over the environmental group\u2019s role in protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The &#8230; <a title=\"North Dakota judge finalizes $345m judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/north-dakota-judge-finalizes-345m-judgment-against-greenpeace-in-pipeline-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about North Dakota judge finalizes $345m judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}