The 1,100-mile-long, $3.8 billion pipeline that’smaking national headlines plans to carry almost 500,000 barrels of crude oil from the fracking oil fields of North Dakota, to Illinois and then proceed onward to the Missouri River, and into the Gulf of Mexico.

Comcast corporation, the largest cable access company in the United States, was just handeda $2.3 million dollar fine from the Federal Communications Commission.

The residents of Flint, Michigan will likely still be without government aid in regards to the almost three-year-long catastrophe involving the contaminated drinking water.