Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline: What Next? Tilting at Windmills?

After a decade in which the coal and oil lobbies have frustrated their efforts to put in place a cost-effective policy to slow climate change, environmental groups scored a win last week on a related, high visibility issue. Trouble is, their objective, halting the expansion …

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Extract Baby, Extract! There’s No Stopping Canadian Tar Sands Oil

Environmental groups, with a little help from the EPA, are trying to stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to move crude oil from Alberta (Canada, for the geographically challenged) to refineries in Texas. Nobody’s seriously claiming the $7 billion, 1,700 mile addition to the …

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