Rob Port

The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is expected to have a dramatic impact on how Americans get their power across the U.S. Or, perhaps it’s better to describe the impact as extreme, given that dozens of states, including...

On Sept. 19, 2008, TransCanada submitted a permit request to the U.S. State Department to build a pipeline across the United States/Canada border. The name of this project was the Keystone XL pipeline.It took 2,605 days —...

Like every other state in the union North Dakota has a host of state boards and commissions that were created to administer licensing and discipline for various occupations. Yet increasingly the mission of these groups has crept...

The proponents of family law reform in North Dakota are having an impact. After ballot measure efforts in 2006 and 2014 aimed at changing divorce and custody laws managed to get around 40 percent of the vote, the state’s lawyers...

HBO comedian John Oliver aimed his considerable polemical skills at North Dakota recently, much to the delight of the state’s critics.“Be angry,” was Oliver’s advice, even going so far as to put up a billboard with that message...