Keystone XL Loses Ground in Congress
Once again, the little campaign that could has defied long odds and demonstrated that facts keep getting in the way of the Keystone XL pipeline. Emboldened by hopes of delivering ...
House Attempts To Force Approval Of Keystone Pipeline That Would Create Just 35 Permanent Jobs
In what will likely prove as meaningless a vote as the 37th repeal vote of Obamacare, on Wednesday night 241 members of the House of Representatives voted to approve the northern leg ...
Congress Whacks the Keystone XL Piñata Again
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Congress is expected to vote this week on a bill to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The legislation, titled the “Northern ...
Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL
Tiffany Germain is a Senior Climate/Energy Researcher in the Think Progress War Room. (Source: Suncor Energy Inc., BLM) The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote ...
Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL
Tiffany Germain is a Senior Climate/Energy Researcher in the Think Progress War Room. (Source: Suncor Energy Inc., BLM) The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote ...
Tar Sands and Soda? Launching the Future Fleet Campaign
By Michael Marx, Beyond Oil Campaign Director
The Sierra Club has a long and successful history mobilizing our two million-plus members and supporters to push government leaders to ...
New Englanders Invade DC to Stay Tar Sands Free
I’m from New Hampshire, which (unless you listen to Texans) is the greatest state in the Union — I grew up fishing for perch off the dock at Lake Winnipesaukee, catching ...
Alberta, Open Sewers and the Keystone Pipeline
Al Gore raised the hackles of the Canadian government this week when he criticized the country’s large scale extraction of oil from the Alberta tar sands. The tar sand oil reserves ...
Small or Large, Communities Nationwide Face Fallout of Dirty Fuel Production
This past weekend,
the oil and gas industry proved again that it cannot be trusted when it comes
to protecting the people who live near their dirty fuel production facilities
and ...
Exxon Spills Tar Sands Oil Again In Missouri, Can’t Find 126,000 Gallons Spilled In Arkansas
Exxon, cleaning up another oil spill from the Pegasus tar sands oil pipeline. (Credit: KAIT) ExxonMobil has now confirmed that on Tuesday, the Pegasus pipeline that has been out of ...
Thanks Maine Senators Collins and King for Climate Vote
Buried among the hundreds of budget votes that the Senate took were some grains of hope that Congress may get its head out of the sand on confronting climate change.
Majorities of senators–including ...
Northeasterners Fight Back Against Tar Sands Project
NTSB Photo – Ruptured Enbridge tar sands pipeline, Line 6BThe tar sands industry — responsible for toxic oil spills across the Midwest and Arkansas — is plotting to bring ...
To Thine Own Self Be True: The President, the Pipeline, and the Principle
Citizens at the State Department's April 18 hearing on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Grand Island, Nebraska
By Courtenay Lewis, Beyond Oil Campaign Representative
When ...
BREAKING: Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Accident in Minnesota
Well, that didn’t take long: Just weeks after ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of sludge and wreaked havoc in Arkansas, an Enbridge ...
Congress Joins the Chorus of Boos Against Keystone XL
It’s been a bad week for the tar sands industry, with protests against the Keystone XL pipeline coming to a boil as the window for public input closes. Joining the growing chorus, ...
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