A Texas pipeline company's lawsuit seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from Greenpeace was set to advance with opening statements Wednesday in a trial the environmental organization calls an effort to silence critics of the oil industry.

A US oil pipeline operator's lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from Greenpeace for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of violence and defamation begins Monday in a North Dakota court, in a

Energy Transfer says Greenpeace used tactics including defamation, vandalism and harassment in an attempt to tarnish the company’s reputation and sink the Dakota Access Pipeline project.