This morning, the board of directors of the Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT), a non-profit legal defense fund that works to protect Nebraska landowners and citizens who stand to be affected by the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, passed a critical new resolution expressing concerns about TransCanada’s behavior and tactics toward Nebraska landowners. The resolution […]

Bold Nebraska’s Mary Anne Andrei reports on the risks to Nebraska’s water, and the State Department’s final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.* Not only does the State Department environmental assessment acknowledge that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route continues to cross the Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer, it also confirms […]

With the release of the State Department’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the Keystone XL export pipeline, arguments from both sides of the issue have been aired, and a lot of (mis)information has been thrown around in Nebraska and national media.  With the public comment period ending on March 7th, the need for citizens […]

MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” host Ed Schultz announced on Friday on his show that he will come to Nebraska to visit with landowners, farmers and ranchers who are in the path of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. They are facing threats of eminent domain from a foreign corporation, that would force them to give up […]

Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Thursday, Feb. 6 to debate the Keystone XL pipeline with Schultz, who has taken heat for recently coming out in favor of the pipeline. In the lead-up to Jane’s appearance, Ed shows a multitude of clips of oil rail car accidents in what […]

The State Department has released its final environmental review of the dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now it’s time for Secretary of State John Kerry to tell President Obama whether he thinks it is “in our national interest” to approve this dirty and dangerous pipeline. And what he says could be one of the […]

Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club and Oil Change International have filed a FOIA request to the State Department to unearth insider communications with the Canadian government and oil industry in the weeks leading up to the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement.   Keystone XL: What did API know and when? Groups FOIA State Department […]

We have compiled key information for the press and public in response to the release of the State Department's Final Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL. The most significant piece is the State Department acknowledges the proposed route STILL crosses the Sandhills and the Aquifer.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes did a great commentary on Keystone XL on Friday called “Time to End the Addiction,” that compares America’s addiction to oil and fossil fuels and inaction on climate change to the behavior of a drug addict who keeps putting off getting clean. 

CREDO is partnering with local groups to host vigils all across the nation on Monday at 5pm. We have four vigils registered on their website (see below) but you can also create your own! If you can not come to one of these events below, you can add an event on the CREDO site for […]