Tar Sands: A Matter of Time, By Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director
Forty-five minutes. That’s how much time it took a ruptured pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas, on Friday to dump at least 84,000 gallons of tar sands crude into a residential neighborhood and force the...
View ArticleExxonMobil’s Mayflower Mess, By Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director
It’s now been almost two weeks since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline spill put at least 500,000 gallons of tar sands crude and contaminated water into the Arkansas community of Mayflower. Many of the...
View ArticleToday Big Oil’s spin gets a much-needed reality check
TarSandsRealityCheck.com launches today to reveal the gritty truth about the tar sands and counter misinformation spread by the oil industry Toronto/Washington/Brussels (5-16-13) – Launching today in...
View ArticleTories spend on Keystone XL ads, while cutting environment funding
OTTAWA, May 27, 2013 /CNW/ “Canadians should be outraged that the federal government is shoving millions of taxpayer dollars into American advertising to promote Keystone XL,” says Dave Coles,...
View ArticleKeystone XL: The Iconic Climate Battle. By Michael Marx, Sierra Club
In February 50,000 people marched on the freezing Washington Mall to tell President Obama that he must reject Keystone XL and move forward on climate. Since then, Sierra Club activists and our partners...
View ArticleClimate Leaders Call on President Obama to Reject Keystone XL, By Kristen...
United Church of Christ Pastor Bronksi warned pregnant women and people with respiratory problems to leave the room Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., when he donned thick black...
View ArticleCongressional Voices Say Keystone XL Fails President’s Climate Test, By Kate...
Last week, prominent voices in Congress stressed the State Department’s failure to accurately account for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline’s climate impacts, noting that there is “nothing inevitable”...
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