The news is almost all bad, but not quite, thanks to wind power
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The news this week is really quite bad. I want to look away. But let’s just sample a few items first. Top of the list — and the planet — the Arctic ice has thinned...
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Nebraska Governor calls for Obama to deny Keystone pipeline, until Nebraska...
From Green Right Now Reports In a move that had been talked about, but was by no means considered a sure bet, Nebraska’s Gov. Dave Heineman has called for the Obama Administration to turn down the...
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GOP senators try to force-start Keystone pipeline, despite Obama’s order for...
Green Right Now Reports Less than a month since the Obama Administration delayed the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for at least a year, a group of GOP senators is trying to force the project...
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Texans opposed to an oil pipeline?
From Green Right Now Reports A major standoff over the Keystone XL pipeline in unlikely East Texas is becoming more than just a nuisance to pipeline operator TransCanada, as protesters have repeatedly...
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A dozen Keystone XL protesters arrested in East Texas as civil actions...
From Green Right Now Reports Tar Sands Blockade, a coalition of landowners and environmentalists opposed to the tar sands pipeline, reported that police have arrested 12 protesters in East Texas for...
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Obama Administration, a step closer to approving the Keystone pipeline?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The Obama Administration released its revised environmental impact assessment on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Friday, portraying the project as a safe...
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Reading Keystone XL tea leaves: Is a pipeline in our future?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now blogs What the President said yesterday about the Keystone XL pipeline sounded sensible and straightforward: Now, I know there’s been, for example, a lot of...
View ArticleBillionaire Tom Steyer says Keystone XL Pipeline to raise gas prices
Billionaire Tom Steyer, founder of Farallon Capital Management LLC, talks about today’s release of a report by the non-profit organization Consumer Watchdog that says completion of TransCanada Corp.’s...
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Keystone XL protest reveals discontent with a carbon-heavy future
By Barbara Kessler GRN Reports This past weekend, some 500 or more students protested in Washington D.C. against the Keystone XL pipeline, which is poised to carry a thick crude oil from the tar sands...
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