The Keystone XL pipeline is proposed to run through hundreds of Nebraska homes, farms and ranches, crossing the delicate Sandhills and putting the critical Ogallala Aquifer at risk. This summer, Nebraskans will stand up for their future by literally building the clean energy future we need. We will challenge Big Oil to show their true […]

Pipeline Training for County Commissioners, County Zoning Board & Attorneys Focus on Zoning, Haul Agreements, Local Oil Spill Response Plans August 23, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | York City Auditorium, York, Nebraska PRESENTERS: Carl Weimer, Pipeline Safety Trust Carl Weimer is the Executive Director ofthe national Pipeline Safety Trust. He also serves on the Governor […]

Read today’s news from around the state and country. Each day in the Roundup we cover politics, always with a side of bold humor. We think politics should be fun, informative and encourage us all to take action. June 19th Both Of Nebraska’s Nuclear Reactors Ready To Retire: Analysis by the Vermont School of Law […]

Last month, OPPD held open houses to “engage customers on future projects.” But these open houses weren’t really a space for customers to get their opinions heard. Set up in a way that was geared more toward legitimizing the status quo than creating an open forum for ratepayers to tell OPPD what they would like […]

The latest cartoon from Neal Obermeyer is a twist on an ad promoting the upcoming John C. Fremont Days festival in Fremont, Nebraska. The city enacted a law designed to prevent undocumented immigrants from renting housing that was recently upheld by a federal appeals court. The law also “requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they arrest […]

Read today’s news from around the state and country. Each day in the Roundup we cover politics, always with a side of bold humor. We think politics should be fun, informative and encourage us all to take action. July 12th Urge Kerry To Investigate KXL Conflict of Interest: As previously reported, Friends of the Earth […]

Remember that huge pile of petcoke — the extremely dirty tarsands byproduct that is burned similarly to coal — that’s currently parked on the banks of the Detroit River? In one year, Keystone XL would produce enough petcoke to fill the Great Pyramid of Giza. Over its projected lifetime, KXL would produce enough petcoke to […]

Did you get a call from the Koch Brothers this weekend? We’ve heard reports from several of you that Americans for Prosperity–the front group backed by the oil billionaire brothers–was calling Nebraskans this weekend and urging them to come to the York County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday morning to speak IN FAVOR OF the Keystone […]

Within the next two weeks, officials in York and Antelope Counties will be reviewing pipeline resolutions and zoning requirements that will ultimately determine how protected the land, water, and people of their counties are in the event that TransCanada receives a presidential permit to build the Keystone XL. You can take action today by sending […]

Moments after President Obama delivered a historic speech on climate change and what he is going to do about it, I received emails from three Nebraskans who have been elected to speak for our state: one from Senator Johanns, then one from Senator Fischer and another from Congressman Smith. In each of these emails were […]