Tag: Keystone XL

“Constructing pipelines through rivers, streams and wetlands without analyzing the impacts on imperiled species is unconscionable."

His announcement Monday was met with enthusiasm by pipeline opponents.

“The decision puts in limbo thousands of infrastructure projects nationwide that rely on [Nationwide Permit] 12 for the construction, maintenance, or repair of utility lines and poses particularly acute problems for the oil and gas industry.”

“The era of fossil fuels must end."

"It happens over and over and over and over and over."

“The Trump administration has proven to be just as reckless with our Constitutional separation of powers as this dangerous Keystone XL pipeline is to the safety of our water and climate.”

"The #KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline was a bad idea from Day One and it remains a terrible idea today."

"We were very fortunate in the fact that there's a natural containment the oil resides."

The court’s decision will require the Trump administration to review more thoroughly the potential negative impacts of the pipeline on the surrounding environment and climate change.

“The Department … simply discarded prior factual findings related to climate change to support its course reversal.”