Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog
Lately we’ve all been hearing a lot about Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Oakland, DC, San Francisco, and many places in between). Many are calling it the Tea Party of the Left, with its focus on unemployment, corporate greed and crony capital...
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Nov. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Despite conclusive evidence that the State Department has overseen a corrupt Keystone XL tar sands pipeline review process, the Obama administration indicated last Thursday (November 10) that the department will remain in charge of the new environ...
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Nov. 7, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
12,000 strong. That's how many people showed up Sunday, November 6 -- exactly one year before Election Day 2012 -- to link arms around the White House in a circle of hope (three rings deep!) and urge President Obama to stop the proposed Keystone X...
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Oct. 18, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Evidence is mounting that the State Department's review of a proposed tar sands oil pipeline has been corrupted by bias, lobbyist influence and conflicts of interest. The growing scandal is making front-page headlines and putting new pressure on P...
Read More »Oct. 14, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
October 14, 2011: Our communications director has compiled a must-read list of coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline controversy. There’s been a lot of coverage. He's compiled some of the last week’s key stories here.
Read More »Oct. 6, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
The tangled web of corruption surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline implicates lobbyists and government officials alike. DeSmogBlog, Oil Change International, The Other 98% and Friends of the Earth investigated the cozy relationships between key St...
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Oct. 5, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
October 5, 2011 Since there’s been so much news related to the Keystone XL pipeline controversy subsequent to our release of the second round of State Department documents, we put together the following news roundup. Breaking this a.m.: Sta...
Read More »Oct. 3, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
With the release of the second batch of documents, the filing of a lawsuit to stop illegal pipeline construction work in Nebraska and the expansion of our Freedom of Information Act request, there has been extensive media coverage of the pro-pipel...
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Oct. 2, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Friends of the Earth and allies have obtained internal emails from the State Department that provide definitive evidence of bias and complicity in the department's review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The emails are a key pa...
Read More »Sep. 13, 2011 / Posted by: Rebecca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
We have obtained documents from the State Department in response to our Freedom of Information Act request that provide evidence of agency bias and indicate the State Department was doing favors for TransCanada during the Keystone XL review.
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