At a hearing on Friday, July 19 at the Lancaster County Courthouse, the judge overseeing the landowners’ lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law that fast-tracked approval of Keystone XL in Nebraska set a date for the claims to come to trial. The first day in court for the three landowners — Randy Thompson, Susan […]

Sen. Smith is best known among pipeline fighters for “authoring” the unconstitutional LB 1161, but we now know he is also a jet setter on Canada’s and TransCanada’s dime. Following up on reporting yesterday by investigative journalist Nick Surgey at the Center for Media and Democracy, which uncovered an oil-lobbyist-and TransCanada funded trip by U.S. […]

A new poll finds that Rural Americans believe elected officials ignore small communities and fail to invest in their future. The poll was conducted by Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners and Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group for the Center for Rural Affairs, and the announcement below is cross-posted from the Center for Rural […]

Bold Nebraska has joined the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Oil Change International in demanding that the U.S. State Department prepare a new supplemental environmental impact statement for the Keystone XL pipeline that takes into account new analyses that prove the project will accelerate tarsands expansion […]

Today, President Obama made a bold proclamation that he will not approve Keystone XL if it contributes to climate pollution. He said that, “Our national interest will be served only if this pipeline does not significantly exacerbate the climate problem.” It is now up to the State Department to prove that the pipeline will not […]

On Tuesday, June 25, Pres. Obama laid out his administration’s Climate Action Plan in a speech delivered at Georgetown University. Reactions from Nebraska groups to the President’s climate agenda are outlined below, with quotes from groups including Bold Nebraska, Nebraska Sierra Club, Nebraska Farmers Union, Nebraska Wildlife Federation and the League of Women Voters of […]

The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on Tuesday released a report on diluted bitumen that disappointingly fails to answer the basic question of what the risks are once a spill happens. Citizens understand tarsands shares some chemical properties of other heavy crude like oil from Venezuela. However, the concerns about what happens once tarsands spills–most important […]

The House voted this week to reject the new five-year Farm Bill by a vote of 195-234. Our friends at the Nebraska Wildlife Federation have some perspective on the vote and what it means below. House Farm Bill Falls Short: 195-234    On Thursday, the House of Representatives surprised most observers when a vote to approve a new […]

TransCanada, the Canadian corporation behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, is providing security briefings to Nebraska authorities warning them to look into the application of “anti-terrorism laws” on people who oppose the pipeline despite the fact that no Nebraskan has committed a crime in the state in their efforts to stop the pipeline. Bold Nebraska […]

Public Citizen has documented dozens of anomalies, including dents and welds, reportedly identified on a 60-mile stretch of the southern segment of Keystone XL in Texas. Landownerns have asked the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to investigate. Despite the clear evidence outlined below, TransCanada is in damage control mode, […]