The developer behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, which for months drew thousands of protesters, has sued Greenpeace and several other environmental groups for their role in delaying the pipeline’s construction. In the racketeering lawsuit it filed in federal court Tuesday, Energy Transfer Partners alleges these groups inflicted “billions of dollars in damage” with their “criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation” against the pipeline.

Greenpeace led a “network of putative not-for-profits and rogue eco-terrorist groups” — including Earth First! and BankTrack, who are also defendants — which disseminated false claims about the pipeline’s impact on the environment and the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s sacred sites, alleges the lawsuit.

Energy Transfer says the environmental groups, which together it refers to as “the Enterprise,” engaged in racketeering and defamation that ended up increasing the cost of construction by at least $300 million. But the developer — represented by a law firm whose managing partner is Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney — notes the “full extent of damage” must be determined at trial with a jury.

“This is the second consecutive year Donald Trump’s go-to attorneys at the Kasowitz law firm have filed a meritless lawsuit against Greenpeace,” Greenpeace USA General Counsel Tom Wetterer responded in a statement, referring to a similar 2016 lawsuit filed against Greenpeace by Resolute Forest Products.

“It is yet another classic ‘Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation’ (SLAPP), not designed to seek justice, but to silence free speech through expensive, time-consuming litigation,” Wetterer added. “This has now become a pattern of harassment by corporate bullies, with Trump’s attorneys leading the way.”

Crude oil began flowing through the $3.8 billion pipeline earlier this summer, roughly half a year after the project was originally intended to be finished. While the pipeline stretches more than 1,000 miles, most of the controversy over its construction focused on its path across the Missouri River in North Dakota, near the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s reservation.

As NPR’s Camila Domonoske noted, the tribe “argued the route would threaten the tribe’s water sources and sacred sites,” even winning a halt to construction — but only briefly. The decision to deny a permit for the proposed route, which was handed down in the closing months of the Obama administration, was quickly reversed after President Trump entered office.

Energy Partners argues that throughout this fight, the environmental groups it’s suing sought to undermine a legal project with their “calculated and thoroughly irresponsible attacks.”

“They caused enormous harm to our company and to people and property along the pipeline’s route, wreaking havoc in those states,” Energy Transfer spokesperson Vicki Granado said Tuesday. “We have an obligation to our shareholders, partners, stakeholders and all those negatively impacted by the violence and destruction intentionally incited by the defendants to draw a line.”

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The list of charities and nonprofits that have canceled fundraising events at Mar-a-Lago continues to grow. At least 20 groups now have pulled out of galas that had been scheduled for President Trump’s country club in Palm Beach, Fla.

In announcing the cancellations, many of the groups cited the controversy surrounding Trump’s recent comments that “both sides were to blame” for the violence that occurred during a white supremacists’ rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The withdrawals from Mar-a-Lago began last week when several well-known national charities, including the Cleveland Clinic, American Red Cross and Susan G. Komen, announced they would be finding new venues for their events.

The Red Cross’s statement reflected the typical reasons cited. It said it provides “assistance without discrimination to all people in need, regardless of nationality, race, religious beliefs, or political opinions.” And because of that mission, its association with the president’s country club “has increasingly become a source of controversy and pain for many of our volunteers, employees and supporters.”

This week, cancellations are still rolling in as more charities — both nationally known and local Palm Beach causes — turn away from the club.

The Palm Beach Daily News, a newspaper that closely tracks the social calendar in the wealthy enclave, reports that the list includes the Palm Beach Zoo, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach and an important arts venue, the Kravis Center.

It also includes a local animal welfare group, Big Dog Ranch Rescue. Its March luncheon will now be held at the group’s facility, more than 15 miles from Palm Beach. Big Dog Ranch Rescue’s decision came as a surprise to some, because one of the chairwomen for the event is the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump.

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Classic car shows are a summer tradition. But if you want the most exotic, rare, and the most expensive cars in the world, then you need to head to the Monterey Peninsula, Calif. The 67^th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance caps off a week of intensive, obsessive car love.

The Concours this year features 204 of the highest-caliber cars that have ever been made. Essentially, the international car world descends on the region. Fifteen countries and 31 states enter the elite car show held on the famed 18^th hole of the Pebble Beach golf course.

Dan Schaefer does a last minute detail before judging on the 1968 Ferrari 275 GTS/4 Scaglietti NART Spider owned by Chris and Ann Cox, Chapel Hill, N.C. Just 10 examples of this car were built and this is tenth one.

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That’s just the end of a week of car madness, when cars take over the coastal towns of Monterey, Pebble Beach and Carmel by the Sea. The Monterey airport hosts an event of cars and airplanes. There’s the Tour d’Elegance, where show cars cruise the streets, a wild exotic car show on Cannery Row (Steinbeck fans wouldn’t recognize it), and, most importantly, plenty of public and private auctions. Take a look at the top 20 most expensive cars ever sold (publicly) and more than half were sold in or around car week on the Monterey peninsula.

Wayne Craig (center) gives last minute instructions to the volunteer docents who lead tours and have knowledge of the cars.

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To get an idea of the caliber of cars shown around town, Ferrari chose the show to celebrate its upcoming 70^th anniversary with a concours of its own. This year, Jeff Mosing, a serious car collector from Austin, Texas brought his Ferrari F40. For him, cars are way more than a form of transportation or even rolling art They are more like pets: “There’s a gut feeling just like if you meet somebody and you’ve never met them before that you know that there’s something there. … definitely had a connection with this car.”

Mosing’s Ferrari goes for between $1.3 and 1.5 million dollars. His car wasn’t for sale, and it wasn’t entered in the big show. His car, a mere 27 years old, wouldn’t make the cut at Pebble. The Concours is about painstaking restoration.

Left: Ferrari specialist, Tom Shaughnessy, assembles a tool kit for his client’s 1952 Ferrari 212 Inter Ghia Cabriolet before judging. The car is owned by Jimmy Page of Boca Raton, Fla. Right: Shaughnessy’s assembled tool kit for this specific car.

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Thomas Shaughnessy from Oceanside brought his 1958 Ferrari Ghia to show on the 18^th hole. As he prepped his vehicle, Shaugnessy unrolled $25,000 dollars’ worth of tools. These look like ordinary wrenches and hammers, but when you’re restoring a classic car, it’s about the right tool for the right car.

For the privilege of strolling on the greens of the course, an estimated 15,000 attendees paid $350. Men and women parade the fairway dressed to the nines, with hats and parasols. The show also draws its share of car loving celebrities, Jay Leno (naturally), former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and ABC’s Michael Strahan were just a few of the bold name celebrities.

As wealthy and star-studded as the show was, it’s hard not to be affected. Deep and profound love is shown these classic cars. Morris Lum was detailing a 1958 Dual Ghia, owned by Tom and Gwen Price of Belvedere, Calif. Lum uses a toothpick to get into the crevices. The Dual Ghia is an example of an extremely rare car, only 115 were completed and only 36 are known to have survived.

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Ferrari race cars are lined up at dawn on Pebble Beach Golf Links’ 18th green at during the 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. California’s Monterey Peninsula is home to the renowned car show that displays the most exotic, rare, and the most expensive cars in the world.

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Paula Blair’s love of the automobile reached its maturity at Pebble Beach, she says: “I started off as somebody who really wasn’t interested in a car.” Blair and her husband Peter first came to the show 11 years ago for a anniversary and now she considers herself “becoming what I call a minor car person somebody, who just likes the look of them versus other people who love them so much they start collecting.”

Sandra Button has worked at Pebble Beach for 32 years. She started coordinating events at the course and began over the years to focus year round. Button has become one of the most prominent women in this male-dominated world. “They’ll call my husband instead of me ’cause it’s like a guy talk thing,” Button says with a laugh about the men who can’t believe she’s really the boss, when it comes to cars and Pebble Beach.

“And I don’t really care because as long as a great car gets to Pebble Beach, if they want to talk to my husband instead of me, that’s fine. But ultimately, he’ll even say, ‘You know you got to talk to the boss.’ “

Left: A Concours judge checks the undercarriage on the 1938 Lagonda V12 Rapide Drophead Coupe, owned by Ron Rezek. Right: Detailer Morris Lum uses a toothpick and microfiber cloth towel on his client’s 1958 Dual Ghia Convertible. Only 115 Dual Ghias were completed and just 36 are known to have survived.

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With self-driving and electric cars in the future, it’s not hard to see this antique car show as, well, antiquated. Button says she was reluctant to accept electric cars, but now she’s been converted. “They’re fun. They’re torque-y and you feel the power under you.” Button says as the world goes more electric, an issue for antique car lovers may be access to gasoline.

But even when cars drive themselves, she believes the Concours will prevail: “If you go all the way back to the days of the horse and carriage,” Button said while strolling onto the 18^th hole, “People don’t need horses in the same way we used to. I mean everybody used to really need their horse… (but now) there’s still horse shows and there are still places to race them.”

She says that may turn out to be what happens with cars. “We’re going to have great places to enjoy our cars” she says, “but not in the everyday way.”

That’s because, the future will come to Pebble Beach, eventually.

For the privilege of strolling on the greens of the course, an estimated 15,000 attendees paid over $300.

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NPR’s Emily Bogle edited the photos for this story. Maquita Peters edited and produced it for the Web.

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On Friday, three well-known charities — the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Susan G. Komen — announced they are canceling plans for fundraising events at President Trump’s Palm Beach country club, Mar-a-Lago.

The three joined a growing list of nonprofits that have severed ties with the exclusive, Trump-owned resort. Others include the Cleveland Clinic and the American Cancer Society.

The cancellations come in the wake of Trump’s controversial comments made earlier this week when he said that “both sides were to blame” for last weekend’s deadly violence involving white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

Trump has been under heavy criticism all week for his remarks, which prompted many corporate leaders to bail out of White House advisory boards. So many CEOs resigned that the president responded by disbanding three committees — one focused on shaping business strategy, another on boosting manufacturing and third on improving infrastructure.

After the CEOs started refusing to work with the president, pressure increased on charities to give up their annual trips to Mar-a-Lago for galas.

For example, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove had served on one of the disbanded business councils. And a day after that dismantling happened, the hospital announced that “after careful consideration,” Cleveland Clinic would not hold its 2018 event at Mar-a-Lago.

Earlier this year, despite a petition drive by doctors and medical students, the hospital had refused to cancel its fundraiser there. When medical students and other groups renewed the push recently, Cleveland Clinic remained firm, saying Mar-a-Lago met its needs.

Now, it does not.

The American Red Cross said in its statement that it must provide “assistance without discrimination to all people in need, regardless of nationality, race, religious beliefs, or political opinions.”

The charity’s connection with the president’s club “has increasingly become a source of controversy and pain for many of our volunteers, employees and supporters,” it said.

The Salvation Army issued a similar statement, saying its event at Mar-a-Lago helped raise money for disaster victims and the homeless. “Because the conversation has shifted away from the purpose of this event,” the group says, “we will not host it at Mar-a-Lago.”

Susan G. Komen, a charity that invests in breast cancer research, confirmed it is also withdrawing from Mar-a-Lago and is seeking a new venue for its fundraising event.

The rash of high-profile cancellations has created something of a scramble in Palm Beach as charities look for other suitable venues. The Palm Beach Post says other nearby hotels and the Palm Beach County Convention Center are hearing from interested groups.

For Trump, the cancellations will mean a significant loss of income, unless the staff at Mar-a-Lago finds new customers who want to book a 20,000-square-foot ballroom embellished with 24-karat gold leafing, modeled, as Trump told Florida Design magazine, after Versailles.

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