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VIDEO – Clinton Speaks! Tar Sands Remarks Disappoint
In a rare public statement of tar sands, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to say America’s energy choices amount to either dirty oil from the gulf or dirty oil from Canada. (Full transcript here.) Mrs. Clinton offers up a false… Read more >
PA Official Resigns Over Spying on Enviros
Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry is notoriously reckless on safety, ranking 6th worst in the U.S. according to a recent National Wildlife Federation report, but somehow it was environmental advocates who were targeted by state level homeland security officials. The… Read more >
Video – Tar Sands Bring Misery to Alberta Residents
Felice Stadler filed this dispatch while on a tour of tar sands producing Alberta, Canada. National Wildlife Federation is working to slow production of tar sands fuels in Alberta. Tar sands are one of the dirtiest fuels in the world… Read more >
Blow the Whistle on Polluter Abuse! [Audio]
Nebraska landowners and citizens will be able to blow the whistle on the heavy-handed tactics of Canadian oil giant TransCanada starting today. TransCanada is the company trying to run the dirty fuel into the U.S. along a 2000 mile proposed pipeline… Read more >
Poll: in Nebraska, ‘huskers rally against tar sands pipeline
Nebraska is many things to many people. Depending on who you ask, the Cornhusker State is “Where the West Begins,” the birthplace of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet, or home to a uniquely football-mad populace. And really, speaking as an… Read more >
Tar Sands Pipeline Company Admits Playing Fast and Loose with Safety
Canadian oil giant TransCanada will abandon, for now, its bid to pump dirty tar sands oil at higher than normal pressures. They sought a waiver from normal safety procedures, until recent disasters and public pressure forced them to concede. They… Read more >
Michigan Oil Spill Disaster: It’s the Smell that Hits You First
As soon as I heard that over 800,000 gallons of crude oil had rushed from a broken pipeline into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, only a few hours from NWF’s Great Lakes Regional Center, I grabbed a camera and headed… Read more >
WATCH – NWF Calls on Obama Administration to Stop Dirty Fuels Pipeline
Today the State Department held a hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring dirty tar sands fuels across six states and 2,000 miles. The pipeline would bring the dangers of the Gulf disaster to heartland states: threatening ecosystems… Read more >
In Advance of Tar Sands Federal Hearing, Members of Congress Say Don’t Rush to Dirty Fuels
Fifty members of Congress yesterday asked the State Department not to rush to approve a TransCanada Corporation dirty fuels pipeline, citing the need for further study of the fuel’s potent greenhouse gas emissions. The letter comes just days before a… Read more >
