2025-06-30
13 分钟For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
In 2016, a group of activists who called themselves Water Protectors,
led by members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe,
set up camp on the windswept plains of North Dakota.
Their protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline quickly grew into one of the largest indigenous-led movements in recent U.S. history.
At the protest height, more than 10,000 people gathered to stand in defense of water,
land, and tribal sovereignty.
The response?
militarized police, surveillance drones,
and a private security firm with war zone experience,
and eventually a sprawling lawsuit that arguably aimed to rewrite the history of Standing Rock.
My guest today is Eileen Brown.
She's a freelance journalist and a senior editor at Drilled,
a self-described true crime podcast about climate change.
The latest season of Drilled, which premiered on June 3rd,
digs into the shocking legal battle the pipeline's builder,
Energy Transfer, launched against Greenpeace.
Thank you so much for coming on to chat with us today.
Yeah, thank you for having me.
So for folks who don't remember or maybe weren't paying as much attention