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James Hansen, Famed Climate Scientist, Urges Obama To Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline
2013-04-04 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On Thursday, after retiring from NASA to pursue environmental activism, James E. Hansen published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times warning that the Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, would exacerbate global warming and put the U.S. on the hook for oil spills and environmental degradation. The op-ed marks the first move in Hansen's new career as a carbon campaigner, after nearly half a century spent as NASA's most famous climate scientist at the agencys Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In...
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Keystone XL: The pipeline to disaster
2013-04-04 08:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In March, the State Department gave the president cover to open a big spigot that will hitch our country to one of the dirtiest fuels on Earth for 40 years or more. The draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline acknowledges tar sands are nasty stuff for the environment, but concludes that the project is OK because this oil will get to market anyway -- with or without a pipeline. A public comment period is underway through April 22, after which the department will prepare a final statement...
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Carney, in Testy Keystone XL Exchange, Deflects to State
2013-04-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: White House spokesman Jay Carney ended a testy exchange with a reporter on Air Force One Wednesday by routing questions about review of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to the State Department. Along the way, Carney and the reporter sparred over the definition of hypothetical. Carney played defense when fielding a question about, among other things, whether Friday's spill of Canadian oil from an Exxon pipeline in Arkansas will affect the White House decision on Keystone XL. Heres the...
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Leaking Pipeline Offers Warning on Keystone XL Proposal
2013-04-03 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Environmental groups are sounding alarms about conflicting reports on the size and seriousness of an oil spill that took place late last week in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas. The spill has generated particular interest because it emanates from a pipeline carrying "tar sands" oil, a particularly heavy and environmentally destructive oil composed of bitumen and diluted with lighter elements.A lot of the people we talked to said, "We didn't even know there was a pipeline under our homes.'...
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Pre-Exxon spill poll shows support for Keystone
2013-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: A new poll shows broad support for the Keystone XL pipeline, but critics hope the widespread attention going to ExxonMobils oil pipeline rupture in Arkansas will change that. Two-thirds of Americans want Keystone to be built, according to the survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. Only 23 percent of those polled oppose it. Sizable majorities of both Republicans (82 percent) and independents (70 percent) want the pipeline built, as do 54 percent of Democrats, the survey found....
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