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Keystone XL
January 26, 2023
Kate Aronoff
This Company Is Suing the U.S. Over the Keystone Pipeline Cancellation. Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill.
The lawyers, meanwhile, are living handsomely.
November 1, 2021
Magazine
Nick Martin
Indian Country’s Right to Say No
In a true government-to-government relationship, the United States would properly consult with tribal nations—and, crucially, tribes could reject America’s plans. Can we ever get there?
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June 10, 2021
Nick Martin
Keystone XL Is Dead. Now Kill the Rest.
As TC Energy announced defeat this week, battles against Line 3, Line 5, and the Dakota Access Pipeline continue.
February 10, 2021
Nick Martin
The Dakota Access Pipeline Trades Temporary Jobs for Lives
President Biden shouldn’t wait to pull the plug on oil projects that threaten Native communities and others around the globe.
January 20, 2021
Nick Martin
Cancel All the Pipelines
Without congressional action, the Biden administration’s planned Day One revocation of the Keystone XL permit will be an important but temporary victory.
June 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Reactionary Unions Don’t Just Back Police. They Also Back Fossil Fuels.
The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?
November 5, 2019
Nick Martin
States Are More Worried About Pipeline Protesters Than Spills
The latest Keystone pipeline leak is one of many: The U.S. averages one crude oil spill every other day.
October 15, 2019
Nick Martin
The Connection Between Pipelines and Sexual Violence
Attempts to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis could be counteracted by the problems “man camps” cause for reservation communities.
August 23, 2019
Nick Martin
David Koch Is Gone, but His Pipelines Are Here to Stay
A fortune built on exploiting the earth funds an empire dedicated to smothering free speech.
May 28, 2019
Magazine
Ted Genoways
River of No Return
How austerity and climate change put northeastern Nebraska underwater
November 9, 2018
Emily Atkin
Judge rules that Trump can’t ignore ‘inconvenient facts’ about climate change.
December 6, 2017
Magazine
Ted Genoways
Compromised
A group of small-town environmentalists wanted to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant. How did they end up fighting alongside anti-Muslim xenophobes?
November 20, 2017
Emily Atkin
Keystone XL just won a key approval, days after a 200,000-gallon spill.
September 8, 2017
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Ben Adler
The Next Standing Rock
A new Canadian pipeline could be "game over" for the climate—and activists are lining up to stop it.
August 3, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump is about to lose one of his only actual accomplishments.
February 6, 2017
Erik Loomis
The Unions Betraying the Left
By embracing Donald Trump, the building trades are selling out the movement for greater equality for all working people.
January 26, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is going at a blistering pace. How long can he keep it up?
January 24, 2017
Clio Chang
Trump calls himself an “environmentalist,” while pledging to cut auto regulations and approving oil pipelines.
December 28, 2016
Demi Lee
Trump and Trudeau: An Odd Couple That Scares the Hell Out of Environmentalists
Both leaders want the Keystone XL pipeline—and just might get their wish.
January 6, 2016
Rebecca Leber
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline wants its money back for losing.
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