On Monday, in a letter to the State Department, the EPA raised objections to the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for a Presidential Permit application by TransCanada for the Keystone XL pipeline. The EPA gave the DSEIS an EO-2 rating (“Environmental Objections—Insufficient Information”), based on its analysis of the project’s impact on greenhouse gas […]

Landowners, citizens, environmental advocates, and tar sands industry leaders all agree: the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is the key to expanding the tar sands industry. The only opposing viewpoint comes from the flawed State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which was written by oil and gas industry consultants that benefit from pipelines getting approved. The American public […]

UPDATE, 2/28, 5:30pm:After posting this story, we received a return phone call from Alex Wunrow, the former Nebraska legislative page who posted on the Nebraska Watchdog comment section. He confirmed his identity and had this say: “I was a page at the time so [Lautenbaugh] asked me to go down to his office to get him […]