"Three years after demonstrations over an oil pipeline in Standing Rock, N.D., made national headlines, some states are moving to limit protests.

At the urging of conservative activists and politicians, four states have adopted laws since the Standing Rock protests that seek to penalize both individual protesters and the organizers of those demonstrations.

Many state proposals are based on a model promoted by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, and at least one is aimed at tamping down any protests that could arise during construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Fourteen other states have considered similar bills, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law's 'U.S. Protest Law Tracker.'"

Mike Lee reports for EnergyWire April 24, 2019. [2]