Keystone oil pipeline bill fails in US Senate
Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline in a vote that will give Republicans more ammunition to criticize President Barack Obama’s energy policies on the campaign trail.
Another Keystone XL Victory, says Bill McKibben
Today was… quite a day, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. The bell that people struck last August when they sat in at the White House to block the Keystone Pipeline was still resonating. Not loudly — the oil money in Congress muffled the sound. But loudly enough that we squeaked through by a 4-Senator margin, defeating a Republican amendment mandating the pipeline’s construction.
Native Ecuadorans protest Amazon mining
Demonstration is organised by powerful umbrella group that represents natives from around Ecuador.
