Tag: Keystone XL
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Judge Sides With Landowners, Strikes Down Eminent Domain Law Allowing Keystone XL
Yesterday the Lancaster County District Court in Lincoln, NE found LB 1161—the law that amended Nebraska state pipeline laws to clear the way for the Keystone XL pipeline by granting the power of eminent domain to Gov. Heineman and in turn TransCananda—unconstitutional and void, according to Bold Nebraska. “Citizens won today,” said Jane Kleeb, director of Bold Nebraska. “We beat a…
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New Evidence Submitted in State Department Hiring of Oil Industry Consultant to Write Keystone XL Environmental Review
Today Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth submitted evidence to the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General to support the ongoing inquiry into conflicts of interest and mismanagement in the environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The groups request that the Inspector General takes steps to ensure that the tainted Final…
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Bill McKibben to President Obama: Say No to Big Oil
In an interview with Moyers & Company, author and environmental activist Bill McKibben tells Bill Moyers that many who believed Barack Obama in 2008 when he called for ending the tyranny of the oil industry are about to find out “whether or not they were right to believe.” McKibben said President Obama is “theoretically a good environmentalist,” but…
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Senior Officials Accused of Skewing Science to Benefit Keystone XL Pipeline
Managers within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) overrode their scientific experts to adopt an inaccurate map based upon a flawed model that significantly shrank the range of an endangered species, according to agency investigative reports released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The managers not only retaliated against scientists who voiced…
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New Keystone XL Comedy Video Challenges Industry Claims
Today, on the first day of the State Department’s public comment period for the recently released environmental impact report on the Keystone XL pipeline, acclaimed comedians and climate justice advocates team up to release a provocative new video blasting the pipeline’s impact on jobs and the environment. Combining environmental justice politics with hilarious satire straight…