Tag: Tar Sands

The United States of ALEC

In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would, among other things, ease environmental regulations, dilute collective bargaining rights …

June 25, 2013
Obama’s Unveiling of Climate Plan Must Ditch ‘All of the Above’ Energy Policy

Tomorrow the President clearly wants to show climate leadership. His intervention is welcome, but this time he must not fluff his lines. And that means no more “All of the Above,” as well as no KXL …

June 24, 2013
Breaking: Nine Arrested After Halting Construction at Keystone XL Pump Station

Early this morning, eight individuals blocked construction of a pump station for TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Seminole land-by-treaty by locking on to equipment in the largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance. The group took …

June 24, 2013
Billionaire Tom Steyer Launches Campaign to Rally Obama Supporters Against Keystone XL Pipeline

To demonstrate the dangers of the Keystone pipeline to American communities along its proposed route, Steyer commissioned the first-ever chemical analysis of tar sands oil collected from the March 2013 spill in Mayflower, AR. An independent laboratory …

June 21, 2013
Keystone XL Export Pipeline: Bad for Americans, Bad for the Economy

The core talking points for the supporters of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline center around U.S. domestic energy security and economic growth. However …

June 20, 2013