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Elitism in American Energy Decisions

Michael Greenberg | Posted 04.23.2012

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Cultural elitism is unfortunately still a prevalent force, and Keystone XL is just one example out of many of America disrespecting less-developed parts of the world to meet its hunger for power.

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Obama's Secretive Keystone XL Decision

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.19.2012

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The oppressive monster known as the Environmental Protection Agency is not just killing jobs these days -- it is intentionally avoiding transparency that may shed light on the political motivations behind the agency's actions.

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Obama's March Madness

Michael Brune | Posted 05.26.2012

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Spring is in the air -- but has the president really fallen madly in love with dirty energy? As usual, the answer is complicated.

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Obama Defends Handling Of Keystone Decision

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.22.2012

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CUSHING, Okla. — President Barack Obama firmly defended his record on oil drilling Thursday, ordering the government to fast-track an Oklahoma p...

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Obama Putting Keystone XL Segment On Fast-Track

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.22.2012

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama is defending his energy policies in oil country, pointing to plans to fast-track an oil pipeline from Ok...

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Obama Goes On The Offense For Energy

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.21.2012

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MALJAMAR, N.M. — Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pum...

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Despite Uniting Behind Obama, Unions Face Bitter Divisions

AP | By SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Unions may be united in working to re-elect President Barack Obama, but their leaders also are trying to repair bitter divisions over hi...

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Keystone XL Bill Thwarted By Senate Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday narrowly rejected a GOP provision to fast-track the construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline. The amend...

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Texans Fight to Protect Their Land From the Keystone XL Pipeline

Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.08.2012

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Texas landowners say they are fed up with the exaggerated claims and false arguments that Big Oil boosters are making about pipeline plans to ship a river of toxic Canadian tar sands crude through America's midsection to Gulf refineries.

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Americans Send Over 800,000 Messages Opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline in One Day

Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.16.2012

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People from across the nation have come together in their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil.

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Keystone XL: Time for the Senate to Show Some Courage

Bill McKibben | Posted 04.12.2012

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We've been to jail, we've marched on Washington; this week it's pixels and keystrokes. This electronic blitz is an effort to show Congress that there's support out there for doing the right thing.

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Voters Want Obama's Clean Energy Plan

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 04.11.2012

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In order to win on clean energy, candidates can't just name check the issue. They have to lead on it. They have to offer a vision for America's clean energy future, and they have to do it before their opponents frame the issue for them.

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Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: The Facts Deserve Repeating

Robert Redford | Posted 04.09.2012

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The Keystone XL pipeline doesn't deliver on jobs or national security, it jeopardizes public health and safety and the president was right to reject it.

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Canadian Keystone XL Oil Pipeline: Why the Deception?

Edward Flattau | Posted 03.31.2012

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Republican lawmakers seem convinced that President Obama's handling of the Keystone project will fragment the support of his industry, union, and environmental backers and deal him a blow in an election year.

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The Keystone Myth

Al Gore | Posted 03.25.2012

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President Obama made the right call last week when he decided to reject the tar sands pipeline. The State Department, in its Congressional Report debunked the myth that this disastrous project would benefit the US.

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Examining Obama's Pipeline Decision

Toni Johnson | Posted 03.21.2012

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"The arguments on both sides of the debate have been pretty badly exaggerated. Opponents of the pipeline talk about how it's game over for climate change.... The proponents of the pipeline talk about it as if it would allow the United States to become somehow free of Middle Eastern oil.

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Keystone Pipeline Fight Is Not Over

Renee Parsons | Posted 03.21.2012

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As Bill McKibben and his environmental supporters bask in a well-deserved satisfaction of the now-infamous Keystone XL pipeline denial, a close reading of the president's statement indicates reason for concern.

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Obama Has Gotten Himself Stuck in the Oil Sands

Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 03.20.2012

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When Congress forced the Obama administration to stop dithering on its decision to support the Keystone XL Pipeline, it revealed a White House's determined to cleave to ideology in the face of all common sense.

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What's So Radical About Caring for the Earth?

David Suzuki | Posted 03.19.2012

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Is it radical to care for our country, our world, our children and grandchildren, our future? It seems more radical for a government to come out swinging in favour of an industrial project in advance of public hearings into that project.

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Congressional Republicans Planning End-Run Around Obama On Contentious Issue

Posted 01.12.2012

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By Roberta Rampton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON--Congressional Republicans, who are urging President Barack Obama to give a permit to the Canad...

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If You Care About Keystone and Climate Change, Occupy Exxon

Paul Loeb | Posted 02.25.2012

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Given Obama's two month decision window, we need to keep pressure on the White House. The chances of Obama again rising to the occasion are far greater if there's continued public outcry about the pipeline.

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Congress and Keystone XL: A National Disgrace

Robert Redford | Posted 02.17.2012

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Let's be clear about the purpose of this move. It's a naked political stunt designed to hurt the president in an election year.

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From the Oil Disaster Frontlines: Victory Up North as the Battle Rages in the Gulf

Rocky Kistner | Posted 01.11.2012

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As Keystone XL protesters savor their victory to postpone the pipeline project, another oil policy decision this week did not turn out so well; a plan to expand drilling operations in the oil-damaged Gulf and pristine arctic.

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White House Rally Sunday to Stop Keystone XL

John Adams | Posted 01.04.2012

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It's time we stood up, all of us, to say we won't put the American heartland at risk for a project that would wed our future to the past. We won't keep pushing to the ends of the Earth to feed our addiction to oil.

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It's Time for Obama to Say No to 'Big' Oil

Jody Williams | Posted 01.03.2012

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The false dichotomy between 'ethical' oil and 'conflict' oil is not only offensive and of course insulting -- it will ultimately only make more Americans cynical about big business and the politicians who blindly support them.

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