A nearly $667 million jury verdict against Greenpeace tied to an energy company’s lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline protests has been reduced by a North Dakota judge by nearly half.
The jury verdict, which threatened to push the global environmental organization toward bankruptcy, was scaled back to about $345 million by Judge James D. Gion. The Wednesday decision out of a Morton County, N.D. district court overturns the verdict on several key claims brought by Texas-based Energy Transfer LP.
A jury ruled in March against three Greenpeace groups named in a suit brought by Energy Transfer in the wake of ...