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22 Former Obama Campaign Staff And Donors Arrested Protesting Keystone XL

On Monday, twenty-two people peacefully obstructed the entrance to the building that houses the State Department’s offices in downtown Chicago. They were then arrested without incident. Last week in London, several protesters were arrested inside the Parliament building after attempting to disrupt a speech by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Show More Summary

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Today's comic by Matt Bors is Data intrusion: New Jersey quote of the day. Keystone XL builders won't use high-tech methods to detect leaks: TransCanada Corp. (TRP), which says Keystone XL will be the safest pipeline ever built, isn’t...Show More Summary

‘Every Plant And Tree Died’: Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms

As the Obama administration’s decision regarding whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline draws nearer, the latest disaster is raising serious concerns about the safety of Canada’s rapidly expanding pipeline network. A massive toxic waste spill from an oil and gas operation in northern Alberta is being called one of the largest recent environmental [...]

22 Arrested in New Wave of Resistance to Keystone XL Pipeline

Twenty-two people were arrested the morning of June 17 after staging a sit-in at the U.S. State Department?s Chicago office to protest the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. The action in President Obama?s hometown is the first of a series of planned acts of civil disobedience this summer calling on the administration to reject the controversial pipeline. Show More Summary

Stefanie Penn Spear: Opposition Escalates Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline

Last month, it was reported that TransCanada was in damage control mode concerning flaws in the newly laid southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline after dozens of anomalies, including dents and welds, were identified along a 60-mile stretch north of the Sabine River in Texas.

Al Gore Calls on President Obama to Veto Keystone XL “Atrocity”

The biggest decision of President Obama's two-term presidency looms ahead, and environmentalists are increasingly concerned that Obama will cave to fossil fuel interests and approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Now we can add former vice president Al Gore to

Obama to Unveil Climate Change Policy In July

 President Obama has reportedly told Democratic Party donors at closed-door fundraisers that he will unveil a new climate change plan in July, with separate actions that could potentially address the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline project and the EPA’s emissions guidelines for new and existing power plants. The White House is still working out the [...]

TransCanada Corporation (TRP), Canadian National Railway (USA) (CNI): How to Profit From Pipeline Gridlock

“Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Keystone pipeline got’s to go!” That was a protest chant from a march outside Washington D.C. where environmentalists called on President Obama to reject TransCanada Corporation (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline earlier this year. While North America is in the midst of an energy boom, politics is preventing the construction of [...]

How Much Did Seven House Votes Pushing Keystone XL Cost Taxpayers?

News broke recently that the 37 House votes to repeal Obamacare cost taxpayers $55 million. The House has voted for Keystone XL eight times, and Oil Change International says the House members who voted for it took six times as much money from the oil industry as their colleagues who voted against. Show More Summary

Al Gore says Obama must veto ‘atrocity’ of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

Permaculturalists and a Buddhist Monk Are Walking the Keystone XL Pipeline

The construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline’s southern leg is underway in Oklahoma and Texas. Depending on your worldview, extracting oil is either a boon for jobs and industry, or it’s the most potent symbol of ecocide within industrial culture. Show More Summary

KXL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada Documents

Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada Documents (via Desmogblog) Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada - owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline...Show More Summary

Obama Admin Raises 'Carbon Cost'

Buried in a rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government's accounting for carbon emissions that could have implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline. The increase of the social cost of carbon,...Show More Summary

Pandering To Keystone XL Foes, Obama Said To Soon Release His Climate Measures

In other words, hold onto your wallets, as Obama speaks to people whom which he wants to provide open wallets (Bloomberg) With his administration under pressure from environmentalists to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, President Barack Obama plans to unveil a package of separate actions next month focused on curbing U.S. Show More Summary

Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada Documents

Documents recently obtained  by Bold Nebraska  show that TransCanada - owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline - has  colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible...Show More Summary

Terrifying/hilarious TransCanada documents call Keystone XL protesters terrorists

TransCanada's presentation to law enforcement agencies says the protesters are potentially violent. Protesters respond: WTF?

Gore Attacks Koch Brothers

Former Vice President Al Gore released his mud chakra Tuesday, slinging the slime at the Koch brothers. Speaking of the Keystone XL Pipeline, Gore stated: And they want to put a pipeline right down through very environmentally sensitive parts of our country so they can export it from the Gulf of Mexico to China. Show More Summary

Can the New Social Cost of Carbon Estimate Help Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline?

Another item the Obama Administration doesn’t seem to be comfortable talking about: The updated social cost of carbon (SCC). Why? Because the new estimates can cause the Administration a serious headache when it comes to the upcoming...Show More Summary

Father’s Day Petition To President Obama

One of our great writers, Don Lieber, has created a petition on MoveOn.org targeted at Obama that I thought was worth quickly passing along. It’s a Father’s Day petition pushing Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Here’s...Show More Summary

Michael Marx: Keystone XL: The Iconic Climate Battle

If he opens the door to exploitation of the tar sands, he sends the signal to oil, coal and gas companies around the world that the one president who actually got climate change, didn't have the courage to stand up for what was right and protect the birthright of future generations--a healthy planet.