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 … Read more
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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 … Read more
Tar Sands Producing Deformed Frankenfish
It’s a sportsmens nightmare just in time for Halloween. Reports of fish species near Canadian tar sands operations sprouting lesions, and deformities like “pushed in faces, bulging eyes, humped back, … 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 … Read more
Oil Pipeline Breaks Keep Coming
UPDATE 4:41pm: Reuters now reports the pipeline hasn’t stopped spilling & that the rate could be up to 25,000 gallons (600 barrels) of oil per hour. An oil pipeline owned … Read more
Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Climate: Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule
The National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule team’s favorite summer movie was Inception. It got us to thinking, what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Big … Read more
Video: Michigan’s Oil Disaster
The National Wildlife Federation has had not one but two teams responding to oil disasters — our Gulf Coast team dealing with the BP gusher, and our Michigan team assessing … 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 … Read more
Just Saying No to the Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet
By Larry J. Schweiger I was pleased to see so many clean energy advocates, landowners, and activists uniting to say no to a proposed, risky canadian dirty oil pipeline that … Read more
“Politico” Ad Calls on President to Stop Dirty Fuels Pipeline
NWF, Sierra Club and NRDC are stepping up the pressure on the White House to intervene and stop construction of the massive and dangerous Keystone XL pipeline that would further … Read more
