The Environmental Protection Agency will soon offer their comments on the final Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the U.S. State Department concerning the Keystone XL pipeline.
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have revealed the contents of emails between State Department officials and TransCanada, which owns the proposed pipeline, and say they indicate a cozy and unethical relationship.
Friends of the Earth filed a federal lawsuit after the State Department denied their Freedom of Information More…
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the State Department’s review of a massive and controversial oil pipeline slated to stretch from Alberta, Canada, to Texas.
The move comes as Upton has been touting his conservative credentials in an effort to win the More…
More than 75 environmental and conservation groups have signed a petition calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to halt all oil sands projects that would result in the creation of new tailing ponds, which hold the waste of oil sands production.
Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today asking her not to “prejudge” the outcome of an Obama administration review of a massive pipeline project that will stretch from Alberta, Canada to Texas.
Clinton, speaking in San Fransisco last week, suggested that the State Department, More…
A number of lawmakers are up in arms this week over vague comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which is slated to run from Alberta, Canada, to Texas.
Clinton, speaking in San Fransisco earlier this week, suggested that the State Department, More…
The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of the nation’s pipeline system released for public comment earlier this week a proposal to overhaul pipeline safety.
The proposal, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, lays out a number of potential issues the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, or More…
Once PG&E discovered that a natural gas pipeline had exploded in San Bruno, Calif., earlier this month, employees from the utility company had to drive in rush-hour traffic to manually turn off two separate safety valves in order to stop the flow of gas that was fueling the blaze. It More…
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department today announced that it had negotiated a settlement with a major pipeline company to pay $41 million to upgrade more than 10,000 miles of oil pipeline. The settlement, Obama administration officials say, will result in better pipeline safety on the company’s pipelines. More…
TransCanada is withdrawing an application before the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to operate its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project, which is slated to run from Alberta Canada to Texas, at a higher pressure. The special permit request had become a lightning rod issue for environmentalists in recent More…
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