Up until now, the U.S. has had the same rules for all oil pipelines. But the EPA says pipelines that carry tar sands oil, like the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, should have special standards.

Today, the roughly 2 million barrels of tar-sands oil produced each day in Alberta is sent to refineries in the U.S. and Canada via rail or small pipelines, none of which are adequate to carry the ...

In 2014, O’Connor briefed the U.S. Senate about the potential health impact of the tar sands during the Obama administration’s examination of the Keystone XL controversy.

A proposed expansion of a tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia has erupted into the largest controversy Canada has seen in years. The project’s proponents want to increase ...

ExxonMobil’s oil spill in Mayflower, Ark., was just the latest in a string of leaks from pipelines that proved physically incapable of safely carrying toxic tar-sands oil.

The pipeline, which would transport the tar sands material to refineries near Houston, would cross one of America’s largest underground water reserves, the Ogallala Aquifer, which stretches ...

The Last Tar Sands Pipeline. Our governor, Tim Walz, took the bait. Minnesota needs real infrastructure: water, sewer and bridges. But we're getting a climate bomb pipeline instead.

Hundreds of activists have arrived in Washington, DC, to protest the proposed Keystone XL project, a 1,661-mile pipeline that would carry oil from Canada’s tar sands to refineries in Texas. If ...

Fossil Fuels Tar Sands Pipeline that Could Rival Keystone XL Quietly Gets Trump Approval Enbridge's Line 67, the Alberta Clipper, can pump nearly 900,000 barrels of tar sands oil across the ...

The proposed Pilgrim Pipeline through New York and New Jersey would only transport Bakken crude oil, and not tar sands oil or any other kind of oil, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

The thousand-mile long Line 3 pipeline transports Canadian tar sands oil -- a high-emissions fossil fuel often described as the world's dirtiest oil -- through indigenous lands and waters, ...

A new report cites a 1-in-20 chance of "beyond catastrophic" climate change, threatening the very survival of our descendants.