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Pipeline Fight Lifts Environmental Movement

Why Canadian Tar Sands are the Most Environmentally Destructive Project on Earth

MUST SEE FILM: White Water, Black Gold A+A-1 02-09-2013Share Specialty Studios Most Americans know little about the source of oil for the proposed Keystone Pipeline—the tar sands of Northern Alberta. The tar sands are not a traditional oil field. The oil is extracted and processed from the sands at a significant and devastating environmental and health cost to the land and people, and the process itself is a major contributor to climate change.

Hawai’i Leads the Way with Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Policy

Senate Approves Kerry for Secretary of State