Calls for Change after California Pipeline Explosion
When residents of San Bruno, Calif. heard a piercing squeal followed by an earth-shaking crash on Thursday evening, many thought an airplane had crashed in the neighborhood. In fact, even after they...
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The Biggest Election Winner: Oil
There's a new sheriff in town, or maybe we should say sheriffs, and they support the $5.4 billion TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which would link Canada's oil sands with refineries on the U.S. Gulf...
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Montana ExxonMobil Refinery Operates at Reduced Capacity Following Spill
Oil on the surface of a wetland adjacent to the Yellowstone River (photo by NWFBlog via Flickr)(Billings, MT – Yellowstone Public Radio) – ExxonMobil officials say its Billings, Montana-based refinery...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Controversy
Jim Robbins, veteran environmental reporter and writer for the New York Times, discusses the controversy surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, as well as the environmental and political concerns with...
View ArticleBackstory: Canadian Tar Sands & the Keystone XL Pipeline
The world’s largest energy project is underway in Alberta, Canada. Petroleum is being excavated from vast deposits of tar sands and a proposed pipeline would carry it to refineries in the United...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Senate Approves Pipeline Safety Bill, London Bus Stops All...
Top stories on TN:The US DOT handed out nearly $1 billion in transit grants. (Link)Rep. Mica on FAA shutdown: been there, done that, don't want to do it again. (Link)Orbitz was fined for deceptive ad...
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TN MOVING STORIES: FAA to Unveil New Pilot Fatigue Rules, GOP Wants CA Bullet...
Top stories on TN: Your TN Transportation and Infrastructure Holiday Gift Guide: New York Edition (link) Deal Reached on Controversial NYC Taxi Plan (link) Newt Gingrich: Rail Visionary, Lover of Oil...
View ArticleBackstory: Obama's Ground Game and the Keystone Pipeline
Kate Andersen Brower, reporter for Bloomberg News, takes a look at the size and scope of President Barack Obama’s reelection apparatus and his administration’s recent decision to block the Keystone XL...
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Regulators Soon To Release Reports On Yellowstone River Pipeline Break And...
Oil on the surface of a wetland adjacent to the Yellowstone River (photo by NWFBlog via Flickr)(Helena, MT – Yellowstone Public Radio) – The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration...
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State Agency Proposes Natural Gas Pipeline Through Liberty State Park
It is not a particularly attractive parcel, a less than one-acre strip of grass running adjacent to the New Jersey Turnpike, albeit a tiny part of one of the nation’s most visited state parks in a...
View ArticleThe Keystone XL Pipeline
John Richardson, Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, talks about the proposed oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, which is a flashpoint about ideas of capitalism. His article “Keystone,” in the...
View ArticleThe Leakiest Gas Pipes In The Nation
The Consolidated Edison Company of New York’s 4,300 miles of gas mains leak more than any other system nationwide with at least 100 miles of mains, according to a WNYC analysis of the most recent data...
View ArticleNJ Pipeline Pushed Through Without a Vote
A plan for a 22-mile gas pipeline through the protected Pinelands in New Jersey quietly dodged a major obstacle Friday. The proposed South Jersey Gas pipeline had been rejected last year by the...
View ArticleA NJ Pineland and Approval for a Pipeline
Matt Katz, New Jersey Public Radio reporter and the creator of The Christie Tracker, discusses the decision by the commission that regulates development in the New Jersey Pinelands to approve the...
View ArticleA School Monitor for East Ramapo; A NJ Pipeline; Desegregating NYC Schools
The troubled East Ramapo district is finally getting a monitor to oversee the school board. New York State education commissioner MaryEllen Elia and newly-appointed monitor Dennis Walcott discuss how...
View ArticleExpanding the AIM Pipeline Near Indian Point, Revisiting Fukushima, the New...
Spectra Energy's proposed pipeline expansion poses significant environmental and health risks in our region. How the Alluvium design project sought to save the 14 million people in Dhaka, a city...
View ArticleHow the AIM Pipeline Expansion Will Affect New York
Spectra Energy's proposed AIM (Algonquin Incremental Market) pipeline expansion poses significant environmental, health and safety risks to residents in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and...
View ArticleNative Tribes Join Together in Pipeline Protest
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Native Americans from around the country are meeting at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to protest the construction of the...
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After legal disappointment, North Dakota pipeline protesters vow to fight on
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now we return to the months-long stand-off over the building of a controversial pipeline in North Dakota. It’s intended to carry oil from the state’s...
View ArticleDakota Access Pipeline Project: 'We Need Infrastructure for People, Not Oil...
After months of protest the movement against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline broke new ground. On Friday afternoon the Obama administration took a stand for Native American rights when...
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