A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and others liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connections with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago. The lawsuit in state court reaches back nearly a decade ago to protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access sued Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Fund Inc. in 2019, alleging a scheme to stop the pipeline. Earlier this year a nine-person jury sided with the pipeline company and awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.