In addition to the 13,004 public comments we submitted on behalf of Nebraskans and the over 1 million comments nationwide submitted, state-based groups came together to submit a detailed response to the State Department on why we oppose the Keystone XL pipeline–the route, the map of the Sandhills, emergency response plans, landowner rights, spill liability, […]

Update, 4/23: You can watch the hearing in full at the NET Nebraska site (our NPR affiliate) they taped everyone’s testimony. Please share this 2 minute recap video of the hearing produced by 350.org: http://youtu.be/cXKJgTn5iN8 See pics from the hearing on our Flickr page (we add more every day): http://www.flickr.com/photos/boldnebraska +++ Details on the hearing, […]

More than the Easter bunny is hopping our way! Updates on landowner rights, State Dept. hearing, the citizen lawsuit and timing of the decision by Pres. Obama are in this blog post. We still need you write letters to President Obama. It is the old-school, handwritten letters that get the attention of our elected leaders. […]

Julia Trigg Crawford is a landowner in Texas fighting to protect her land from TransCanada’s risky export pipeline. She is battling them in public and in the courtroom. You can Stand Tall with Julia Trigg by sharing this video, donating to her legal fund, going to her Stand Tall concert on April 20th or writing […]

As the US Senate prepares to vote for a non-binding amendment on the Keystone XL pipeline, landowners and citizens urge politicians to think of the risks to families’ water rather than the rewards of campaign donations from big oil companies. The amendment offered by Sen. Hoeven in non-binding, which means it’s similar to a resolution […]

The lawsuit against the State of Nebraska, filed by three landowners, is moving forward in the Lancaster County court with a full trial expected this summer. The outcome would affect the Keystone XL pipeline route and the power of eminent domain and any possible forced approval of the pipeline that Congress is currently considering. Yesterday, […]

Leaders from the Republican Party visited with President Obama and of course the Keystone XL pipeline came up in conversation. Various reports of what the President said or did not say started to hit blogs and newspapers and twitter. President Obama knows the reality of this pipeline means 35 permanent jobs and an export pipeline […]

Rep. Paul Ryan unveiled his budget, which forces approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by ignoring the basic fact that this is an export pipeline, headed to a refinery owned by Saudi Arabia, that will create only 35 permanent jobs. “On the one hand we want to send Rep. Ryan a big box of tarsands-free steaks from Nebraska thanking him since these types of politically-motivated moves helped […]

The extreme-right American Legislative Exchange Council copy-cat bill (meaning not written by or for our state) on Voter-ID is getting its public hearing today at the Unicam. Sen. Janssen, who is also running for Governor, brought this bill up last year and it got killed because there is no proof of Voter-ID fraud in our […]

The US State Department issued an Environmental Study, one of the steps in the overall decision making process for President Obama. We describe the State Department process and our reaction, click here. The area of the Sandhills the State Department is using in their most recent study comes from a shrunken map formally submitted by […]