President Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported toxic tar sands oil from under Canada’s Boreal forest, home to many North American songbirds populations, to oil refineries in Texas. The pipeline would increase the production on one of the dirtiest forms of oil and threaten rivers and communities all along its path. Tar sands oil is dirtier and more corrosive than conventional oil, and current regulations will not prevent leaks and spills.
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Posted May 16, 2013 by Danielle Droitsch
Canada’s Prime Minister Harper is set to speak before the Council on Foreign Relations to push a pro-tar sands agenda defending against growing opposition to the influx of tar sands to the United States. The Prime Minister's newest appeal comes as the...continued→
Posted May 13, 2013 by Ralph Cavanagh in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Way back in 1996, I was honored to receive the Heinz Award and now I’m joining other winners of that prize and the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize as signatories to a letter calling on the Obama administration to reject the...continued→
Posted April 24, 2013 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil
This is a guest blog post by David Malitz, Ph.D. David is a consultant living in Austin, Texas with over 30 years of experience in statistical analysis. As a statistician, I expected the Keystone XL draft supplemental environmental impact statement...continued→
Posted April 23, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
The State Department’s comment period for the Keystone XL pipeline closed on Monday after the American public provided the agency more than a million comments critiquing its review and voicing concerns about the significant environmental impacts of the controversial project....continued→
Posted April 22, 2013 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released its comments on the deficient environmental review for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that the State Department published on March 1, 2013. EPA rates the environmental impact statement with a 2 – meaning...continued→
Posted April 22, 2013 by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Today is Earth Day and, barring any last-minute change, it's also the final day the public can send the State Department our comments on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Here's mine: This is a plan to pipe some...continued→
Posted April 19, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Today, the State Department made a wrong decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. It refused to grant needed additional time for the American public to analyze and comment on the Department’s 3,500-page draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for...continued→
Posted April 19, 2013 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Amber Bartlett had just finished reading a book in her Mayflower, AR, home when she got a call from her teenage daughter that she will never forget; police had stopped her from entering their subdivision because of a dangerous oil spill...continued→
Posted April 19, 2013 by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
The massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, under review by the State Department, would be one of the largest pipelines in the country, carrying nearly ten times the dirty crude that erupted from a failed pipeline in Arkansas earlier this...continued→
Posted April 18, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
In a critical investigation, Reuters has debunked the State Department’s argument that industry’s expansion plan for tar sands production, and the substantial climate emissions associated with it, can be fueled by rail if Keystone XL is rejected. Commentators in both the...continued→
