Today, several news outlets reported on a letter written by former President Jimmy Carter along with other Nobel laureates against Keystone XL. Considering that the usual suspects – NRDC and the Sierra Club – were behind the effort, it’s no surprise that the letter rehashes opponents’ climate claims, which have been debunked time and time […]
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Whom to believe on Keystone XL – activists and Hollywood actors or actual experts?
April 16, 2014 Blog, Issue Alerts
It’s Game Over for Keystone XL opponents’ “Game Over” Claims
March 13, 2014 Blog
Click to view video At today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Keystone XL, Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) asked well-known climate scientist James Hansen to clarify what he meant when he made his famous “game over” comment, which has been used widely by Keystone XL opponents to justify their erroneous claims. Of course, “game […]
Desperate Tom Steyer Now Paying for Polling
February 19, 2014 Blog
Billionaire Tom Steyer is facing an inconvenient truth: poll after poll has shown that an overwhelming majority of the American public supports Keystone XL – and as of late, that includes increasingly more Democrats and liberals. From former top Obama administration officials to Democrats in the Senate; from labor unions to MSNBC personalities, Democratic support […]
What everyone else is saying about the State Department’s Final EIS
February 4, 2014 Blog, Issue Alerts
Yesterday, OSFC gave the run-down of how anti-Keystone XL activists are scrambling in the wake of the State Department’s final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) which essentially destroys every argument they’ve been making over the past five years. So what’s everyone else saying about the State Department report? Well, the wait has been so long, and […]
Keystone XL Opponents’ Scrambled Response to the State Department’s FEIS
February 3, 2014 Blog
Late Friday afternoon the State Department released its long-awaited Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on Keystone XL. As with the previous four statements, the State Department found, once again, that Keystone XL would have a negligible impact on the environment, clearly passing President Obama’s climate test. In the wake of the news, Keystone XL opponents […]
OSFC Providing Rapid Fact Checks On Keystone XL EIS Day
January 31, 2014 Blog
UPDATE – 1/31/14 3:15pm ET: The State Department has just released its final Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL. Here are a few of the headlines: .@StateDept report deals blow to #KeystoneXL foes, moves pipeline closer to approval: http://t.co/VAsVSNkgFZ — Jennifer A. Dlouhy (@jendlouhyhc) January 31, 2014 BREAKING: State Dept. raises no major environmental objections […]
