Gov. Burgum is applauding the Trump administration's steps to roll back an Obama administration policy that expanded protections for some state streams, tributaries and wetlands.
In a mid-afternoon Rose Garden speech, President Donald Trump announced that the United States will pull out of the Paris climate agreement reached in 2015, which set out to limit the world's carbon emissions and slow the pace of global warming.
The company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline has reportedly spilled more than 2 million gallons of drilling fluid while building a Pipeline in Ohio.
Donald Trump took the stage at the Bismarck Event Center in front of a plethora of individuals tied to the oil industry to wrap up the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference.