by MCDC | Jan 27, 2015 | Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
by MCDC | Oct 27, 2014 | 2014 Midterm Election, 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
It wasn’t long ago that coal executives were openly discussing their dream of Republicans seizing the White House and making Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe — who believes climate change is a “hoax” concocted by greedy scientists — the head of the EPA. Coal companies...
by MCDC | Jan 28, 2014 | Action Alerts, Environment, Global Warming, Keystone XL, Video
America is being sucker punched. If Keystone XL is approved, the Koch Brothers stand to make $100 billion while the USA is left out in the cold. That’s because oil transported by this pipeline would go through our country, only to be exported worldwide. This is...
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2013 | Action Alerts, Environment, Events, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Video
350.org Last week the Canadian government sent a letter to President Obama offering vague promises of reducing carbon emissions from the tar sands in return for the right to build the pipeline. Scientists and energy analysts quickly pointed out that this was nonsense...
by MCDC | Sep 9, 2013 | Environment, Ethics, Issues, Keystone XL
The relentless Canadian lobbying for the Keystone XL pipeline continues today when the Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver heads to Washington to push for the pipeline. During the trip, he will meet U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz for their first...
by MCDC | Aug 7, 2013 | Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL
Last Friday the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General confirmed that it will investigate evidence that the agency violated ethics guidelines when it hired an oil industry consultant to draft the Keystone XL environmental impact statement This evidence...
