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Koch Brothers Interfere At Keystone XL Public Meeting

 |  Sep 27, 2011

Yesterday, the State Department kicked off the final round of public meetings on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Kansas, the home state of the billionaire industrialist brothers, Charles … Read more

Keystone XL a Job Killer, Says Cornell

 |  Sep 8, 2011

Echoing some of our previous posts, the Cornell Global Labor Institute has just released it’s analysis of the job impacts from the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.  Their take?  … Read more

Nebraska Governor Tells Feds Keystone XL Route Unsafe

 |  Aug 31, 2011

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route is unsafe, and the federal government’s environmental risk analysis is wrongly optimistic. That’s the assessment of Nebraska Republican Governor Dave Heineman who today … Read more

Climate Capsule: The Dog Days Are Done?

 |  Aug 30, 2011

This week’s stories: Highlight of the Week: Despite Flawed Review, Tar Sands Pipeline Receives Temporary Rubber Stamp Quote: Mitt Romney Economic Story of the Week: Cleantech Taking Off Editorial of … Read more

Officials Acknowledge XL Tar Sands Pipeline Skipped on Safety

 |  Aug 5, 2011

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 … Read more

U.S. Not Ready for Keystone XL Worst-Case

 |  Jul 11, 2011

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 … Read more

Tar Sands – EPA Says State Dept Did Inadequate Risk Review

 |  Jun 7, 2011

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 … Read more

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No Tar Sands Pipeline Construction Until True Impacts are Clear

 |  May 19, 2011

Pipelines are out of sight and often are out of mind for many Americans–including Congress and the agencies that regulate the pipelines. Last year I learned this lesson the hard … Read more

State Dept. Fails to Learn Lessons of BP Disaster – New Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline Inadequate

 |  Apr 20, 2011

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 … Read more

Back to Bullying for Tar Sands Pipeline Giant

 |  Apr 18, 2011

  TransCanada, the company plotting to build the Keystone XL 2,000-mile, $14 billion pipeline splicing through five states to ship Canadian crude oil to Gulf refineries has added yet one … Read more