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Stand Up and Fight! Five Good Reasons Why Coal Export is a National Issue
It’s time to tackle coal export nationwide! While the first battles are being fought in the West, coal export is a national issue worth paying attention to. Here are five reasons why. 1. If not the West, coal companies will… Read more >
Stand with Heroes Fighting for Appalachian Mountains
When I traveled as a college student to the coalfields of Appalachia to learn from the women and men fighting mountaintop removal coal mining, I had no idea the strength and courage of the people I would meet. The local… Read more >
Keystone XL: Fresh Evidence That China and Not U.S. Will Benefit
As the promoters of the Keystone XL pipeline regroup to push their new permit application to funnel high carbon tar sands from Alberta to Texas, there continues to swirl a good deal of controversy over where tar sands will ultimately end up. More evidence just came to light… Read more >
Bravely Standing Up For Her Children and Community – How an Oil Spill Transformed One Woman’s Life
As parents, we want to make sure our children feel safe and inspired. We want them to embrace life and jump at opportunity. When terrible things happen in the world, it is challenging to know what to say. In 2010,… Read more >
Pipelines Part of the American Reality
Environmentalists are relieved to hear that the Obama administration has delayed the decision regarding the Keystone XL pipeline. But most Americans probably do not know that pipelines already criss-cross our neighborhoods and countryside. For Susan Connolly of Michigan, pipelines were… Read more >
On Tar Sands, Will President Obama be Master of His Domain?
Watch Emmy-winning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus deliver a message to President Obama: Just say no to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Read more >
Officials Acknowledge XL Tar Sands Pipeline Skipped on Safety
House and Senate Make Hopeful Progress Amidst Rash of Spills Emerging from talks with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird late this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated that the State Department is getting ready to approve the dirtiest,… Read more >
U.S. Not Ready for Keystone XL Worst-Case
Are giant Canadian oil companies fudging their safety analyses to get the mother of all pipelines built across the U.S.? And what could happen if a mega-pipeline has a catastrophic Fukushima-style disaster? Pipelines have been spilling regularly across the U.S.,… Read more >
Tar Sands – EPA Says State Dept Did Inadequate Risk Review
The Keystone XL second environmental impact statement is “inadequate” according to a document released by the Environmental Protection Agency today. Over 260,000 Americans wrote to the State Department in opposition to the controversial pipeline. State is in charge of permitting… Read more >
State Dept. Fails to Learn Lessons of BP Disaster – New Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline Inadequate
If there is one lesson we should have learned over the year-to-the-day since the BP disaster in the Gulf, it’s that oil companies cannot be trusted on safety and the U.S. government cannot be trusted to hold them accountable. So… Read more >
