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Lucia Graves

OFA Talking Points Caution Members On Keystone

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.17.2013 | Green

Talking points being circulated by Organizing for Action, President Barack Obama's former campaign arm that now operates as a nonprofit organization s...

Obama Tries Hard To Change The Subject

Reuters | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics

* Strategist Lehane: trip gets Obama "out of the bunker" * Obama wants to cut red tape for big construction projects * T...

Ryan Grim

OFAil: Obama Group Refuses To Push On Keystone

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Top officials from President Barack Obama's campaign arm, which was recently rechristened as Organizing for Action, are working to dampe...

Tar Sands and Soda? Launching the Future Fleet Campaign

Michael Marx | Posted 05.16.2013 | Green
Michael Marx

The Sierra Club is joining and expanding this successful effort to convince even more companies to get on board and go even further to reduce their oil consumption altogether. To date, the climate movement has largely given large corporate oil consumers a free pass. Those days are over.

Lynne Peeples

Oil Spill Worries Linger

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.13.2013 | Green

Genieve Long recalled the fear of waking to her 5-year-old son "wheezing and struggling to breathe" a few days after an oil spill hit her town of Mayf...

Keystone Pipeline Not a Big Deal -- Say Interests Supported By Oil and Gas Industry

David_Halperin | Posted 05.13.2013 | Green
David_Halperin

When money so heavily corrupts politics -- when special interests spread their cash not just to politicians but to the advocacy groups and media companies that host and contribute to policy debates -- it's hard to sort out which opinions have been reached honestly and independently.

Norway, Canada, the United States and the Tar Sands

Dr. James Hansen | Posted 05.10.2013 | Green
Dr. James Hansen

If infrastructure, such as the Keystone XL pipeline, is built to transport tar sands, ways will be developed to extract more and more. When full accounting is done of emissions from tar sands oil, its use is equivalent to burning coal to power your automobile.

The Youth Climate Vote: A New Force in Electoral Politics

Adam Greenberg | Posted 05.08.2013 | Green
Adam Greenberg

It has become clear that Keystone pipeline is a threat to jobs, health and safety, energy security, food and water security, smart growth, and the climate -- but that's not all it threatens: Now, Keystone XL is becoming toxic for politicians who support it.

Lynne Peeples

Huge Energy Company Seeks Restraining Order To Stop Protesters

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.07.2013 | Green

Doug Parr wasn't shy with his description of TransCanada's tactics, including those the pipeline company employed on Monday in an attempt to bar peopl...

Lynne Peeples

Activist Issues Warning On Keystone XL Refineries

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.06.2013 | Green

The stacks stand some 60 yards tall, yet the "heavy smoke and soot" they spew still fills the streets and playgrounds of Port Arthur, Texas, a local r...

Support for Keystone XL Pipeline 'Zucks,' Facebook Says

OnEarth | Posted 05.06.2013 | Green
OnEarth

By Jessica Camille Aguirre, OnEarth Usually when hordes of people threaten to quit Facebook, it's over an unpopular redesign or a sneaky switch in the...

Digging Into TransCanada's Lobbying History

Steve Horn | Posted 05.02.2013 | Green
Steve Horn

TransCanada, the multinational corporation hoping to build the controversial northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, spent over $280,000 on lobbying the U.S. government in the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, according to lobbying disclosure records.

A Bad Bargain

Conor Kennedy | Posted 05.02.2013 | Green
Conor Kennedy

Mark Zuckerberg has in the past been eloquent in his support for transitioning from fossil fuels to knowledge-powered and New Energy economies. Now that his financial ties to the pro tar sands advertisements are public knowledge, many of us hope he will disassociate himself from their dubious content.

Lynne Peeples

'Not Your Grandfather's Oil': Oklahomans Fear A Future With Keystone XL

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.01.2013 | Green

In March 1912, one lucky wildcatter struck black gold in Drumright, Okla. One hundred and one years later, Wheeler No. 1 is still pumping -- and n...

Ad: Arkansas Spill 'Just A Preview Of What's To Come'

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.29.2013 | Green

WASHINGTON -- Environmental groups on Monday announced a new ad campaign that highlights ExxonMobil's massive oil spill in Arkansas last month. The ad...

Zuckerberg Group Spends Big On Pro-Keystone XL Campaign

ThinkProgress | Posted 04.27.2013 | Green

Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable res...

Lynne Peeples

A Line In The Oil Sands: 'By Gosh, Isn't Our Health Worth More Than Any Damn OIl?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.01.2013 | Green

Raymond Ladouceur remembers when he could dip a cup into the Athabasca River for a drink. He remembers when the trout and muskrats were plentiful -- a...

Lynne Peeples

Whose 'Facts' Decide Keystone XL?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 04.23.2013 | Green

Joe Oliver, Canada's minister of natural resources, is not shy about his support for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. And just like the increasingly...

Earth Day 2013: Say No to KXL Tar Sands Pipeline

Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.22.2013 | Green
Frances Beinecke

It's not in our national interest. It's a profit scheme for big oil. It would feed our addiction to fossil fuels, accelerate climate change and put our heartland farmers, ranchers and communities at risk. It needs to be denied.

Lynne Peeples

Tribes Fight Keystone XL 'Black Snake'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.01.2013 | Green

Debra White Plume and Marie Brush Breaker Randall stood in the middle of Highway 44, alongside more than 70 other members of the Oglala Lakota Nation....

Do the Math Documentary Premieres on Earth Night, April 21

Jamie Henn | Posted 04.17.2013 | Green
Jamie Henn

Now, our team here at 350.org is hoping to spark a new wave of not just concern, but action, with a new documentary called Do the Math about the growing movement to take on the fossil fuel industry.

Lucia Graves

Report: State Department's Keystone Analysis Ignores True Climate Impact

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green

WASHINGTON -- The State Department has drastically underestimated the damage the Keystone XL pipeline will do to the global climate, according to new ...

Oops, Inc.: Firm With History of Cover-ups Hired to Clean up Arkansas Tar Sands Spill

Steve Horn | Posted 04.15.2013 | Green
Steve Horn

O'Brien's has had its hands in the botched clean-up efforts of almost every high-profile oil spill disaster in recent U.S. history, including the Exxon Valdez spill, the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, the Enbridge tar sands pipeline spill into the Kalamazoo River, and Hurricane Sandy.

Lynne Peeples

Risky Intersection: Keystone XL, Pegasus Pipelines Meet At East Texas Landowner's Doorstep

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.01.2013 | Green

Before it ruptured last month, spilling 5,000 barrels of noxious black oil into a suburban Arkansas community, Jerry Hightower had never heard of Exxo...

Rep. Lynch Backpedaling on His Support for the Keystone XL Pipeline

Jamie Henn | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics
Jamie Henn

Lynch is running against Rep. Ed Markey in the Democratic primary for John Kerry's old Senate seat in Massachusetts. With no serious Republican candidate in the race, the primary will likely determine the election.