A Reading Guide On The Billionaire Koch Brothers
From funding climate change denial to opposition of the Obama administration’s policies, Mayer describes how the brothers’ political views “dovetail with [their] corporate interests.”
Ads To Urge Obama To Reject Tar Sands Pipeline
A new television ad began broadcasting on Sunday, and calls on President Obama to “do the right thing” to prevent climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline.
Canada Silences Scientists, Targets Environmentalists In Tar Sands Push
"What we’re seeing in Canada is, the, literally, the elimination of 40 years of environmental laws in the last two years in order to make way for quick expansion of tar sands and pipelines."
The Toxic End Of The KXL Pipeline
A major emissions event took place April 15, 2013 in the city of Port Arthur, Texas. But, the real problem is the steady, routine release of toxic chemicals that never makes the news.
Canada Increasingly Desperate To Secure Keystone XL Approval
Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s hopes for the approval and construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport Alberta tar sands crude across the US to refineries and export facilities in the Gulf Coast, hit a stumbling block this summer when Obama announced he will take Canada’s growing emissions problem into account when considering the project’s fate.
Tar Sands Coal Export Boom: Petcoke Exports 2nd Highest Ever In April
Energy Information Agency (EIA) figures for April show the U.S. exported the second-highest monthly total of petcoke in the country's history and 2012 was the highest ever annual amount of U.S. petcoke exports. Further, Keystone XL is intricately tied into this new coal export market, as it will feed right into many key Gulf Coast petcoke refineries, as explained by the great Jan. 2013 report by Oil Change International.
'Funeral For Our Future' Keystone XL Pipeline Protest
New video footage of Monday's mock funeral -- Funeral for our Future -- to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline and all tar sands development.
Blockadia Rising: Voices Of The Tar Sands Blockade
A new documentary filmed in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade and features exclusive video footage shot by the blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance.
