Advocates for LGBTQ+ rights expressed outrage following an announcement that no criminal charges will be filed against the Oklahoma teens involved in a high school bathroom fight with Nex Benedict that resulted in their suicide.

Oklahoma fails to protect the most basic rights for LGBTQ+ people and is among the top 15 American states that actively acts against them.

Oklahoma is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, and recently including by nitrogen hypoxia and firing squad.

Oklahoma has some of the highest gun death rates, gun suicide rates, and household firearm ownership rates in the country, and doesn’t require permitting for the concealed carry of firearms.

Once widespread, the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly has been limited in its breeding success and population by habitat degradation and development.

Ohio has made little progress on gun safety laws, has a Shoot First law, and is training public school employees to use guns.

The share of provisional ballots rejected in Ohio for lack of identification has more than tripled since last year.

Ohio is among the top American states that has a low rate of protective and progressive polices for LGBTQ+ people.

Ohio is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Oil and gas development destroyed thousands of acres of wildlands in North Dakota making the preservation of the Badlands and its Great Plains landscape all the more essential.

Oil and gas development destroyed thousands of acres of wildlands in North Dakota making the preservation of the Badlands and its Great Plains landscape all the more essential.

Passage of a law failed that would have allowed the Fort Berthold Reservation to monitor the impacts of oil and gas development on their air and water

Since the overturn of Roe V. Wade, abortion in North Dakota is completely banned with very limited exceptions.

North Dakota lacks all of the foundational gun violence prevention laws and has only a few of the 50 key policies in place.

Coyotes are in the cross hairs in North Carolina even though they serve a crucial role in limiting the white tailed deep population.

North Carolina is among the US states where discussions about racism are being banned especially in government and academia.

North Carolina has seen regular challenges to voter access to the polls and instances of voter intimidation.

North Carolina is among the top American states with a low rate of protective and progressive polices for LGBTQ+ people.

North Carolina is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

An increasing number of whales, whose populations are still recovering from centuries of hunting, are ending up dead on beaches in New York and other coastal states.