One of the most common arguments offered by the State Department and proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline is that the project will be safer than other pipelines because TransCanada has agreed to 57 conditions outside the normal regulations.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, which opposes the pipeline, says More…
Douglas Kmiec announced Sunday he will resign from his post as the U.S. ambassador to Malta following the release of a State Department report (PDF) criticizing Kmiec for dedicating too much of his working time to writing and speaking about his religious views, according to the Associated Press.
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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.
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…
Change.org links to a good summary of the 874-page comprehensive immigration reform bill Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced Wednesday. The bill includes paths to legalization for non-criminal illegal immigrants in the country, provided they pay a fine and application fees. But first it focuses More…
Advocates of comprehensive immigration reform argue it could reduce the flow of illegal immigration. How? One suggestion is to reform the legal immigration system, which makes would-be immigrants wait years — some more than 19 years — for visas to enter the U.S., driving some to enter illegally. More…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used strong language Wednesday to describe Mexico’s struggle against its drug cartels, comparing it to an insurgency, even though others in the administration have specifically avoided making such a comparison.
Stan Delp, a 67-year-old retired teacher living in Lansdale, Penn., was sitting in church in June, 2008, when he noticed four unfamiliar black-haired men by him. He found they were new to the United States, having spent 11 years in refugee camp in Thailand. Delp’s church is not big — More…
The $600 million border security bill signed into law by Obama last week is fully funded through a hike to visa fees for companies that send large numbers of workers to the U.S. on temporary worker visas. Indian tech companies and trade officials have said these fees are discriminatory and More…
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