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Greenpeace Senior Legal Adviser Deepa Padmanabha, second from left, and other attorneys representing Greenpeace speak to the media March 19, 2025, outside the Morton County Courthouse. (Amy Dalrymple/North Dakota Monitor)

Greenpeace seeks to reduce jury’s award of $667M in Dakota Access Pipeline trial

By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) Greenpeace wants a North Dakota judge to reduce the nearly $667 million in damages it was ordered to pay the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in March, arguing that the award is excessive and unreasonable. A Morton County jury handed down the sum following a more than three-week trial earlier this […]
by The Dakotan
May 15, 2025
U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak speaks in the North Dakota Senate chamber on Feb. 18, 2025, as Lt. Gov Michelle Strinden presides over the session. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Fedorchak emphasizes need for new Medicaid requirements

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) North Dakota U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak described Medicaid as an “at-risk program” unless reforms are adopted to curb rising costs. But North Dakota advocates for Medicaid recipients said Thursday they worry about people slipping through the cracks and new administrative burdens being added to the state. Fedorchak, a Republican member […]
by The Dakotan
May 15, 2025

Supreme Court Grills Team Trump On Birthright Citizenship Order, Leaves Door Open To Reining In Lower Courts

By: Katelynn Richardson (Daily Caller) Some Supreme Court justices appeared concerned Thursday with the implications of letting the Trump administration enforce its birthright citizenship ban, though several remained skeptical about lower courts’ use of universal injunctions. Following three lower court decisions blocking the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the administration in April asked the […]
by The Dakotan
May 15, 2025

Daily Brief: North Dakota Cellphone Ban Questions, Tribal Voting Rights Setback, Big Tax Bill Advances, and Nuclear Regulatory Shake-Up Considered

North Dakota Students Voice Concerns Over New School Cellphone Ban North Dakota’s recent enactment of Senate Bill 2354, effective August 1, mandates a “bell to bell” prohibition on student cellphone and electronic device use in public schools. While Governor Kelly Armstrong supports the law for its potential benefits to student focus and mental health, members […]
by Jonathan Starr
May 15, 2025

White House Reportedly Weighs Major Nuclear Regulatory Shift

By: Audrey Streb (Daily Caller) Executive orders reportedly being drafted by the White House could fundamentally change nuclear power policy by shifting more authority to federal departments to approve reactor designs and projects with the goal of quadrupling capacity by 2040. Four separate draft orders reportedly outlined the possibility of expanding nuclear power by restructuring the […]
by The Dakotan
May 14, 2025

No tax on tips, child tax credit and business tax cuts survive in big House GOP bill

By: Ashley Murray WASHINGTON — House Republicans advanced the tax portion of the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation package early Wednesday, a step forward in permanently extending, and in some cases expanding, the 2017 tax law and temporarily handing President Donald Trump a win on campaign promises like no tax on tips. The House Committee on […]
by The Dakotan
May 14, 2025
Legislators attending a Redistricting Committee meeting Dec. 13, 2023, look at maps of different proposals. An appeals court on Wednesday ruled in favor of North Dakota in a voting rights case. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

Appeals court rules against North Dakota tribes in voting rights case

By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) A federal appeals court on Wednesday found that the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Spirit Lake Nation don’t have standing to bring a voting discrimination claim against the state of North Dakota. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision overturned a 2023 decision by a North Dakota […]
by The Dakotan
May 14, 2025

2 Summit Pipeline Lawsuits Advance, Superintendent Talks Measles, Holmberg Update, China Tariff Pause

Superintendent addresses measles concerns Read it here With North Dakota’s measles outbreak expanding beyond Williams County, Minot Public Schools Superintendent Scott Faul briefed the school board Friday on the district’s preparations should a case emerge locally. Faul said the district is coordinating with First District Health and has notified unvaccinated families about the risks. While […]
by The Dakotan
May 14, 2025
Lenora Kenner, center, of Bismarck, talks with attendees of an anti-CO2 pipeline protest at the Capitol in Bismarck on July 27, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

2 lawsuits against Summit allowed to advance; a third case is pending

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) Two North Dakota judges have ruled that lawsuits filed by landowners against carbon pipeline company Summit Carbon Solutions can proceed over objections about court procedures. Several landowners are suing Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions, which is attempting to build a network of pipelines across five states. The pipelines would take carbon […]
by The Dakotan
May 13, 2025
David Hogg (Photo via democrats.org)

DNC Moves To Void David Hogg’s Election To Party Vice Chair On Technicality

By: Ireland Owens The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted Monday to void the results of gun control activist David Hogg’s election as one of its vice chairs. Following the credentials committee’s decision that the vice chair election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures, it will bring the vote to the DNC’s full body of members to decide […]
by The Dakotan
May 13, 2025
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