“As one of the last major insurers without restrictions on coal insurance, AIG’s new commitments to reduce underwriting for coal, tar sands oil, and Arctic oil and gas are a major step forward ...

Enbridge wants to reverse the direction of the oil so that it would travel West-East and carry tar sands-diluted bitumen. It also wants to expand the capacity of the line to 300,000 barrels per day.

OMAHA (CN) – Three environmental groups say construction of the 1,700-mile tar sands pipeline from Canada through the Sandhills of the Great Plains will do irreparable harm. They claim spills from the ...

While the devastation of nature resulting from tar sands extraction—consuming vast territories and turning rich ecosystems into contaminated wastelands, chemical poisoning of watersheds and rivers, ...

Here’s what really happened: No one shut down, canceled, or shut off the Keystone pipeline. It is fully operational, daily delivering 590, 000 barrels of tar-sands oil in Canada to U.S. refineries.

With $40,000 in student loans and no job prospects in her home of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Kate Beaton traveled West to work in the Alberta tar sands. Credit: From Ducks: Two Years in the Oil ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Hundreds of pieces of tar, some the size of sand dollars, were found on beaches along the Oregon Coast. This comes after reports of multiple birds covered in a tar-like ...

As a result, the U.S. Defense Department is unable to use jet fuel made from tar sands oil even though greenhouse gas emissions per barrel of tar sands oil have fallen 32 percent since 1990.

“This October, we pledge to defend our coast and the mountains, rivers, forests, wildlife and First Nations communities of B.C. against tar sands pipelines and tankers,” said Susan Spratt ...

U.S. Oil Sands also filed a brief on Wednesday —supporting the judge’s decision. The company plans to begin mining its first 213-acre site in 2014.