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Sep. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Kim huynh
The dog days of summer haven’t done much to slow down TransCanada’s propulsion towards construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The Canadian oil corporation last week unveiled its “new” proposed route through...
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Jul. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Kim huynh
Yesterday, activists with Tar Sands Blockade met President Obama’s motorcade in Austin, Texas wielding banners and signs with one simple message: stop the Keystone XL pipeline, no more tar sands through Texas. Tar Sands Blockade is a local a...
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Jun. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
You’d think the State Department would’ve learned its lesson from the first round of review of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, wouldn’t you? Especially after it took 1,253 people risking arrest on President...
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Jun. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
Greetings from Providence, Rhode Island! I’m here today with Friends of the Earth communications manager Kelly Trout for Netroots Nation, an annual national conference of progressive bloggers, media, grassroots organizations and individual a...
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Jun. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
Either Press Secretary Jay Carney was confused at yesterday’s daily White House briefing and misspoke, or the Obama administration has abandoned any semblance of adhering to a legal review process for the southern segment of the Keystone XL ...
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May. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
Yesterday evening, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge kicked off one of the most sweeping expansions in its history, a $3.2 billion (Canadian) series of pipeline projects that would carry some of the world’s dirtiest oil—tar sands oil&...
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Apr. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
Enbridge, the Canadian oil giant responsible for a massive tar sands oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan not yet two years ago, now wants to pipe tar sands oil—the world’s dirtiest oil—through New England with its Trai...
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Apr. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
TransCanada yesterday unveiled its proposed alternative routes—including a preferred alternative route—through Nebraska for its Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline to the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. The Keystone ...
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Mar. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
Yesterday, President Obama shamelessly stood in front of piles of Keystone XL pipe near Cushing, Oklahoma, touting his ‘all of the above’ strategy to solving our energy woes and the climate crisis. Scratch that last one—he didn&r...
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Feb. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kim huynh
Wow. In 24 hours, the environmental movement and our progressive allies came together to send a huge, jarring wake-up call to senators wavering in the face of Big Oil’s threats and campaign coffers: reject any attempts to revive the Keystone...
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