States Allow For-Profit Pipeline Companies to Seize Private Property

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[Donate Now]( [States Allow For-Profit Pipeline Companies to Seize Private Property]( Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Oil companies are seizing private property from landowners to build oil and gas pipelines across the country. In most cases, state regulators and courts have granted private firms eminent domain or "expropriation" powers by framing their for-profit pipelines as beneficial to the public. But activists and landowners are fighting back, and some have been jailed in the process. [Read the Article]( [Legal Battle Staves Off Trump's Assault on Clean Water Protections]( Michelle Chen, Truthout: The Trump administration was recently defeated in a legal battle to roll back Obama-era amendments to the Clean Water Act that strengthened protections for the nation's waterways. But as the nation faces a rising tide of corporate influence under Trump, state-level policies might be the last bulwark against the administration's attack on science and environmental regulation. 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