By Jamie Henn Let’s talk for a moment about how the climate movement is going to fight back in 2018. But first, a public service announcement. This Jan. 31, movement leaders like the one-and-only Bernie Sanders, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP, and more, […]
About 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) of oil leaked Thursday from TransCanada’s Keystone oil pipeline near Amherst, South Dakota, drawing fierce outcry from pipeline opponents. The leak, the largest spill to date in South Dakota, comes just days before Nebraska regulators decide on whether its controversial sister project—the Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline—will go forward. “Enough is […]
At a speech in North Dakota last month, President Trump boasted that his administration is refocusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to its “core mission: clean air and clean water.” “That’s what I want—clean air,” he continued. “Think of it. We talk about the—I want beautiful clean air, and I want crystal-clean water, right? […]
By Ron Johnson Last week, energy company TransCanada pulled the plug on its 2,800-mile Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects, which would have shipped 1.1 million barrels of crude oil from the Athabasca tar sands to refineries in eastern Canada. The move was celebrated as a victory by environmentalists and Indigenous people pushing for […]
By Kelly Mitchell Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International, and others are facing another meritless attack from Trump’s go-to lawyers in an attempt to silence advocacy work and attack free speech. The latest corporation to sign on to the Kasowitz Benson Torres firm’s bullying tactics is Energy Transfer Partners—the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. In response […]
The Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes asked a federal judge Tuesday to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline. While the tribes insist that a June order instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to complete a more thorough analysis of the pipeline means that pipeline operations should be shut down in the meantime, […]
The Intertribal Coalition of Nebraska and the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma met Tuesday in Lincoln, Nebraska to take a stand against the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline by signing the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion. After the signing Tuesday, more than 150 Tribes in the U.S. and Canada, including the Nations all along […]
The Nebraska Public Service Commission (NPSC)—the Republican-dominated state board deciding the fate of TransCanada’s long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline—have barred experts and homeowners from testifying over potential spills or whether the tar sands pipeline is even necessary during final hearings next week. The Omaha World-Herald reports that former Lancaster County District Judge Karen Flowers, who was […]
By Nicole Greenfield In the red state of Nebraska, people know Jane Kleeb for her politics. She’s a progressive Democrat in a land of Trump voters, after all. But people also know the 44-year-old Kleeb, a Florida native who moved to Nebraska in 2007 after marrying into a family of local homesteaders, as someone who […]
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