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- Voices Against Tar Sands: What Americans closest to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline are saying (May 15, 2012)
- A new application for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline means a new review process (May 4, 2012)
- Understanding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline approval provision in the transportation bill (May 3, 2012)
- Nebraska's Legislature considers measure to exempt Keystone XL tar sands from state's pipeline siting law (April 10, 2012)
- TransCanada's southern Keystone XL tar sands pipeline isn't designed to support domestic oil industry (March 22, 2012)
- Senate should not approve defunct Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (March 7, 2012)
- Deeply flawed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline bill approved by House Committee (February 8, 2012)
- Republican Keystone XL bill is not as advertised: Here are the facts (January 24, 2012)
- New report: Keystone XL will undermine U.S. energy security (January 18, 2012)
- Keystone XL is a tar sands pipeline to export oil out of the United States (December 20, 2011)
- House leadership plays politics with Keystone XL pipeline, pushing new legislation and discredited job numbers (December 9, 2011)
- Retired General: Lugar's Keystone XL bill will reduce U.S. national security (December 5, 2011)
- Suncor Spill: South Platte River contamination is a reminder of weaknesses in spill detection (December 2, 2011)
- Suncor tar sands refinery leaks crude into South Platte River (November 30, 2011)
- Senator Lugar proposes bill to rubber stamp Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (November 30, 2011)
- Alberta Innovates report shows more study is needed to assess corrosivity of tar sands and Canadian heavy crude (November 29, 2011)
- President Obama's bold decision on Keystone XL is a win for U.S. energy security (November 11, 2011)
- TransCanada's Keystone I is shut down due to mechanical problems (November 9, 2011)
- TransCanada versus the People of Nebraska (November 2, 2011)
- What a special legislative session in Nebraska means for TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (October 26, 2011)
- Keystone XL is at odds with millions of clean energy jobs (October 12, 2011)
- Emails reveal 'gentleman's agreement' between State and TransCanada for Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (October 4, 2011)
- Clinton's tar sands pipeline "safety conditions" are smoke and mirrors (August 19, 2011)
- Kalamazoo one year later: Anatomy of a tar sands spill (July 26, 2011)
- Tar sands implicated in Yellowstone River pipeline spill (July 15, 2011)
- University of Nebraska Professor releases study showing that State Department environmental review for proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline deeply flawed (July 11, 2011)
- Clarifying facts about TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline following the Yellowstone River oil spill (July 7, 2011)
- Yellowstone oil spill demonstrates deep problem with reactive pipeline safety regulators (July 6, 2011)
- House Testimony on Pipeline Safety Oversight (June 16, 2011)
- The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline leak detection system would have likely missed the 63,000 gallon Norman Wells pipeline spill (June 10, 2011)
- The Keystone tar sands pipeline becomes the newest hazardous liquid pipeline to be deemed an immediate threat to public safety by regulators (June 6, 2011)
- U.S. regulators find continued operation of the Keystone tar sands pipeline to be a "hazard to life, property and the environment" (June 3, 2011)
- The first Keystone tar sands pipeline spills again - providing twelve reasons not to fast-track the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (June 1, 2011)
- What the 21,000 gallon Keystone spill tells us about the safety of tar sands diluted bitumen pipelines (May 10, 2011)
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