Des Moines Register: Environmental activists vowed Thursday to fight plans for a proposed 1,100-mile crude oil pipeline that would slice diagonally through the heart of Iowa, but the state's politicians are withholding judgment for now.
Former state legislator Ed Fallon of Des Moines, who is leading about 40 people on a transcontinental march across the United States to bring attention to climate change, said he will emphatically oppose plans for the proposed Bakken pipeline, which would cut across 17 counties from...