Obama is finally showing us he is willing to fight – on coal, on tar sands, and on climate. His apparent willingness to challenge the climate impacts of coal and tar sands – after years of silence on both topics – is cause for some celebration.
President Obama moves in the right direction on carbon emissions and Keystone XL pipeline, but disappoints on the promotion of fracking, says Daphne Wysham.
Join us at IPS first for hot cocoa and snacks and get to know fellow activists while making posters with your own personal message to Obama!
Do we all have to drown in rising seas or broil in epic droughts before we decide it’s time to switch to renewable energy?
In the foreign policy debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, expect these issues to get short thrift.
TransCanada’s Keystone XL project is rotten.
The people and companies pushing the tar-sands pipeline don’t want you to know that most of this oil won’t be made into gasoline for our vehicles.
Experts available to discuss the failed promises of Obama’s policies towards Canada and Mexico.
Big Oil will do everything it can to overturn President Barack Obama’s decision and build the Keystone XL pipeline.
Here’s a chance for President Obama to uphold that campaign pledge to “end the tyranny of oil” in the United States.
Didn’t we already get our share of tar sands from BP?
Children have a way of speaking to our hearts.
For several days now, protesters have assembled outside the White House to express their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline will carry toxic, corrosive bitumen from the tar sands and will stretch over 1,700 miles from Canada to Texas. There, it will be refined, primarily for export.
“Today I’m risking arrest to urge president Obama to be the leader that puts healing the planet and families over the interests of the fossil fuel industry.”