Catholic Workers Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya spent 2016–17 burning heavy equipment and torching valve sites along the Dakota Access pipeline in Iowa, then publicly confessed at a press conference and awaited prosecution — sabotage in the Plowshares idiom, harming no one. In 2021 Reznicek was sentenced to eight years with a domestic-terrorism enhancement — the same instrument used on the Green Scare defendants — a designation affirmed on appeal despite briefs from civil-liberties groups across the spectrum; Montoya received six years.

The cases fixed the era's asymmetry in a single frame: the pipeline's spills drew fines, while the women who damaged its machinery in protest were sentenced as terrorists. "Water is life," Reznicek said at sentencing; her case became the successor cause of the eco-prisoner movement as the Green Scare generation came home.