“Once again, a massive spill has reminded us of a simple truth: oil pipelines put clean water at risk,” said one environmentalist. With its latest leak of nearly 600,000 gallons in northern Kansas, the sprawling Keystone pipeline system has now spilled more crude oil in the United States than any other pipeline, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg. […]
“Pipelines leak,” said one climate campaigner. “Especially ones named Keystone.” Climate campaigners on Thursday were outraged but unsurprised as TC Energy in Canada—the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline proposal defeated last year—announced the 22nd spill from its original pipeline. The company said it had shut down the Keystone pipeline, which carries 622,000 barrels per day of […]
More than 70 House Democrats told their party’s leadership on Friday that they oppose efforts to attach federal permitting reforms backed by Sen. Joe Manchin to must-pass government funding legislation, arguing the proposed changes would endanger the climate and frontline communities. In a new letter signed by an ideologically diverse array of House Democrats—including members of both the […]
“We cannot continue to wait around for a bunch of corporate shills in Congress to do nothing while people are dying,” said one climate campaigner. President Joe Biden on Friday faced calls to respond forcefully to Sen. Joe Manchin’s latest climate obstruction by canceling a fracked gas pipeline in the right-wing Democrat’s home state of West […]