Rep. Lee Terry, using taxpayer money, issued a “playlist” for an upcoming concert called “Harvest the Hope” featuring Willie Nelson and Neil Young —who stand with farmers, ranchers and tribes protecting the Heartland from the TransCanada’s foreign tarsands pipeline. “Hopefully Lee Terry’s newly found song writing career will enable him to pay for his nice […]

Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Tuesday, Aug. 26, to talk about the climate impacts of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The discussion centered on a new study from Nature Climate Change that suggests Keystone XL’s greenhouse-gas emissions have been underestimated in the U.S. State Dept’s Environmental Impact Statement […]

*VIEW PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK OR FLICKR* **LIMITED SUPPLY STILL AVAILABLE** HARVEST THE HOPE CONCERT T-SHIRT “THESE MACHINES STOP PIPELINES” (Design: Justin Kemerling)   Two music legends — Neil Young and Willie Nelson — performed a benefit concert on Sept. 27, 2014 on a farm near Neligh, Nebraska that is on the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and […]

Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Wednesday, Aug. 13, to discuss recent severe weather events across the U.S. — flooding, drought, heat waves and unusual severe storms — and their relation to global warming and climate change. The coverage included a video clip of the floodwaters that broke through […]

Energy Barn Update:  Monthly:  July 2014 was the best month for energy production at Energy Barn to date!  In July the barn produced 329 kWh of energy, which has the carbon offset equivalent of planting 6 trees. As of August 1st, the Energy Barn in York County had produced 2.88 megawatt-hours of electricity for Nebraska’s […]

While we in Nebraska fight to keep the Keystone Export pipeline out of the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala aquifer, we enjoy a relatively safe and abundant water supply nonetheless–that’s what we’re fighting for.  Elsewhere in the U.S., however, oil spills like the Enbridge pipeline disaster in the Kalamazoo river watershed in Michigan that happened […]

Last week, national members of the GOP issued a report using taxpayer money, attacking Bold Nebraska. We are in the ring with our gloves on so we expect (and welcome) criticism from the other side of the Keystone XL pipeline issue. What we did not expect and think is outrageous is for Sen. Fischer and […]

Almost a year after announcing it would conduct research studying the effects of climate change on Nebraska agriculture, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) will release the first of its kind report on climate change on September 25th, 2014. The UNL study findings will be presented as a Heuermann Lecture: […]

Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Friday, August 1 to discuss Enbridge’s proposed Sandpiper Pipeline, which would run through wild rice fields, cross 28 waterways with no road access, and violate tribal treaty rights in Minnesota. Watch the clip below:

York County Zoning Board Vote THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 – 7:00 P.M. York County Courthouse, 510 N. Lincoln Avenue, York NE 68467 A citizen-led group called the Good Life Alliance in York County, Nebraska has been tirelessly pushing for common-sense zoning regulations to be put in place to protect their land and water from pipelines and […]