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Tar Sands/Oil Sands
The oil industry is hoping to shift the geopolitical center of global oil production to Canada’s boreal forests, home of vast deposits of oil sands, also called tar sands. Environmentalists and First Nations contend it’s a dirty, carbon- and water-intensive business, while proponents of development tout energy security benefits. We’re covering the battle here.
Long involvement in Canada's tar sands has been central to Koch Industries' evolution and positions the billionaire brothers for a new oil boom.
Over the last decade, Charles and David Koch have emerged into public view as billionaire...
May 10, 2012
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The Keystone XL is just one of many pipelines in the works to export Canadian heavy oils to global markets.
As debate over the future of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline continues to boil in Congress and...
Apr 30, 2012
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Nebraska landowners say their primary goal to protect the region's water supply was forgotten in the focus only on the Sandhills.
It wasn't that long ago that the people of Holt County, Neb. thought they had made a real impact on...
Apr 26, 2012
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Opponents say legislation would undercut a tougher law passed in November.
Nebraska's legislature is expected to pass a bill on Wednesday that would ease the way for...
Apr 11, 2012
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Group says NE low-carbon fuel law 'unlikely to survive judicial scrutiny.' One AG tells InsideClimate News the warning won't change state's course.
One of the country's biggest opponents of low-carbon fuel standards has fired a warning shot at...
Apr 3, 2012
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With one eye on the polls and the other on energy goals, Obama appears conflicted and confounded by greenhouse gas emissions.
WASHINGTON—Those expecting a consistent climate change message from the White House are having...
Apr 2, 2012
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A clean fuels effort among 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states is fading, as new pipelines for tar sands crude to the Atlantic get an industry push.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie's administration pulled out of a proposed pact to cut global...
Mar 29, 2012
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The state's refineries emit 19 to 33% more greenhouse gases per barrel of crude oil when stacked up against comparable gas-producing regions.
California's long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new...
Mar 28, 2012
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Mining and using tar sands oil creates more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil. But that's rarely mentioned anymore.
When President Obama traveled to Cushing, Okla. last week to declare his support for building the...
Mar 26, 2012
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Canada's clean economy has so far been spared the damaging effects of 'Dutch disease' caused by oil sands exports. How long can it last?
Canada's oil sands boom is pitting two Goliaths of its economy against each other—the oil sands...
Mar 22, 2012
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