A band of protesters opposing the Dakota Access oil pipeline set fire to their encampment Wednesday as a federal deadline for them to vacate the land neared.
The camp has been the staging point for a six-month-long campaign to block the 1,100-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline from being built near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation in North Dakota.
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