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Protesters at State Department Mount Latest Challenge to Keystone XL Pipeline

200 people attended Monday's demonstration outside the U.S. State Department, and 60 risked arrest, as pressure builds against the government to cancel the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

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Exposed: Canadian Oil and Gas Workers, Many Unions, Now Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline

Amidst the ongoing jobs-vs-environment debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, one voice is noticeably absent: the bitumen workers in Canada who are largely against long-term tar sands extraction and the building of the pipeline.

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Hedges: The Death of Truth

The global assault on Wikileaks is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties — a hunt not for actual terrorists, but for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.

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Former Obama Communications Director Profits Big with Keystone XL Pipeline

Obama's former communications director Anita Dunn is a corporate PR chief whose private firm will gain from tar sands extraction and shipment.

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19-Year-Old Kennedy: Why It’s Worth Going to Jail to Stop Keystone XL

Ever since I chained myself to the White House fence with 47 other protestors urging President Obama to kill the Keystone pipeline, people have asked me why I felt so strongly about the issue.

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In Unusual Setback, the EPA Rejects State Dept's Keystone Pipeline Review

Calling the State Department's 2,000 page oil industry-funded review of the Keystone XL pipeline "insufficient," the EPA rejected it.

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Exposed: State Department Ignores Climate Facts of Keystone XL Pipeline

A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.

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