InfluenceWatch Podcast Reprise: Justice for Greenpeace

This podcast originally released April 18, 2025. Since its release, a judge has reduced the allowable damage award to $345 million.

It can seem infuriating: Leftist demonstrators wantonly violate the law, only to face no or negligible consequences because the powers that be either support or refuse to oppose their disruptive tactics. But as a famous progressive politician was fond of saying, “The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.” A North Dakota jury awarded Energy Transfer, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, $667 million [later reduced to $345 million] in justice, holding that Greenpeace USA had defamed the company during demonstrations against the pipeline. Joining us to discuss the protests, the verdict, and what it might mean for leftist activism going forward is James Meigs, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Listen to “Justice for Greenpeace” on Spreaker.

• City Journal: Greenpeace Verdict Is a Wake-Up Call for Progressive NGOs
• Washington Post: Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator $667 million in case that could destroy the group
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• City Journal: Dismantle the “Environmental Justice” Juggernaut