'Fear and intimidation': how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges

Climate activists opposed to the Mountain Valley pipeline were accused of breaking West Virginia's new critical infrastructure lawIt was around dawn on a chilly day last November when West Virginia state troopers forcibly extricated Jerome Wagner out from a 25ft-deep pit where he was locked to a drilling machine being used to finish construction of a beleaguered gas pipeline.The veteran climate activist was trying to draw attention to the Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) - a 300-mile (480km) fossil fuel project mired by environmental controversies and blocked by court orders and regulatory red tape until it was pushed through by the Biden administration in mid-2023. Continue reading...