You can unsubscribe at any time.TC Energy also faces additional roadblocks to completing Keystone XL, including other legal challenges, oil market chaos, and a recent commitment by Joe Biden to rescind the pipeline’s permit should he be elected president. Please help keep Common Dreams alive by making a contribution. That court rejected the Army Corps’ request. Blocking this pipeline will help stop this administration’s ongoing corruption.”Get our best delivered to your inbox.In addition to Nationwide Permit 12, Keystone XL had also been approved by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to cross approximately 44 miles of federal public lands in Montana.
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Jake Thompson, NRDC, (301) 602-3627, jthompson@nrdc.org Erin Jensen, Friends of the Earth, (202) 222-0722, ejensen@foe.org Mark Hefflinger, Bold Alliance, (323) 972-5192, mark@boldalliance.org Dustin Ogdin, Northern Plains Resource Council, (406) 850-6227, dustin@northernplains.org NRDC Action Fund, EDF Action Launch Major Ad Drive Urging Senator Toomey to Stop Voting Against Public Health and Climate Protections FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jake Thompson, 202-289-2387, [email protected] | Contact: Keith Gaby, 202-572-3336, [email protected] We will fight to defeat them, and to ensure this threat to our water, people, wildlife and climate is never built.”The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana by Bold Alliance, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club. The Indigenous Environmental Network, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation are also leading pending challenges to Keystone XL in the same court.At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature - to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. “The Trump administration keeps trying to fast-track and rubber-stamp the boondoggle Keystone XL pipeline project, but they keep losing ‘bigly’ every time we take them to court,” said Jane Kleeb, founder of Bold Alliance.
We are independent, non-profit, advertising-free and 100% reader supported.SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT“The Keystone XL project was never in the public interest, and the administration continues to flout key environmental laws to promote this dirty and dangerous pipeline," said Jared Margolis, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. E+E Conference; E+E100; E+E Awards; Resource Hub; Supplier Directory Free Press Release Distribution Website. Like every action from the Trump administration, this is another attempt to ignore environmental and health concerns to curry favor with corporate polluters. The Supreme Court’s order partially reverses the Ninth Circuit’s decision, allowing other pipelines to continue using Nationwide Permit 12, but continuing to bar the construction of Keystone XL through rivers, streams, and wetlands while the appeal is heard.By clicking Remind Me, you will also receive periodic communications from the Sierra Club. To help sort out the debate over the Clean Power Plan, we have prepared this well-referenced resource book to help separate fact from fiction. We’ll continue fighting this blatant attempt to disregard Keystone XL’s true risks.”“As the courts have found time and again, the Trump administration has consistently cut corners and skirted the law in order to ram through approval of Keystone XL,” said Doug Hayes, a senior attorney at Sierra Club. The filing is the latest in a series of hurdles facing Keystone XL, including several other legal challenges, oil-market chaos, and a recent commitment by Joe Biden to rescind the pipeline’s permit should he be elected president. We do so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive.Common Dreams is a small nonprofit with a big mission. NRDC Jake Thompson , (202) 289-2387 Audubon Vermont David Mears, , (802) 434-3068 VPIRG Kanika Gandhi, (802-798-2960) PressReleasePoint. “This project is stalled because it would be a disaster for clean water, wildlife, the climate and public lands, and there’s simply no way to approve it without ignoring bedrock environmental laws.
To remain an independent news source, we do not advertise, sell subscriptions or accept corporate contributions. Jake Thompson, NRDC, (301) 602-3627, jthompson@nrdc.org Gabby Brown, Sierra Club, (914) 261-4626, gabby.brown@sierraclub.org Keystone … - Craig Brown, Co-founder“Construction of the polluting Keystone XL pipeline would be devastating for the tribes, farmers and communities along its route,” said Marcie Keever, legal director of Friends of the Earth.