Keystone XL Pipeline

A truck sits parked at railway tracks during a protest near Belleville, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday. Demonstrators have been disrupting railroads and other infrastructure across Canada for more than a week to protest the planned Coastal GasLink pipeline.

World News

Canadian Pipeline Protest Forces Closure Of Major Rail Link

11:11am February 14, 2020

by Scott Neuman

Indigenous protesters are using snowplows and wooden barricades to block a vital cross-country railway to protest construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which they say runs through their land.

Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux council member Patricia Iron Cloud (center) watches protesters make speeches against the Keystone XL pipeline.

National

State Department Solicits Comments On Keystone XL Pipeline

12:35pm October 31, 2019

by Olivia Reingold

The public had its first and only chance to meet with State Department officials about a new environmental analysis of the Keystone XL pipeline this week. Some protesters drove hours to attend.

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A weather-worn sign protesting the Keystone XL pipeline stands in Fullerton, Neb. On Friday the state's Supreme Court dealt the pipeline's protesters a significant defeat, approving an alternate route that runs through Nebraska.

Keystone Pipeline's Alternate Route Gets The Go-Ahead From Nebraska Court

3:34pm August 23, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

A group of activists, Native American tribes and local landowners had challenged the controversial pipeline's 2017 approval. But the state Supreme Court unanimously rejected that challenge Friday.

Shawnee Rae, age 8, among a group of Native American activists from the Sisseton-Wahpeton tribe protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline in Watertown, S.D. in 2015.

In A Setback For Trump, Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline Construction

11:10am November 09, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

Judge Brian Morris wrote the State Department's analysis of the pipeline's potential environmental impact fell short of a "hard look" on several items, including greenhouse gas emissions.

A wooden cross marks an unidentified U.S. Army grave at Fort Laramie, Wyo., as pictured in 2009. The Fort Laramie National Historic Site will host a gathering of Lakota people this weekend to commemorate an 1868 treaty with the U.S. government.

National

Amid Keystone XL Fight, The Lakota Treaty Of Fort Laramie Turns 150

8:10am April 29, 2018

by Jim Kent

Native Americans of the Northern Plains are gathering this weekend to commemorate an 1868 agreement with the United States — one often invoked in the debate on pipeline construction.

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot outside Gascoyne, N.D., in 2014.

Keystone XL Pipeline Gets Regulators' OK In Nebraska, Clearing Key Hurdle

1:15pm November 20, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted 3-2 on Monday to approve the controversial pipeline — albeit not on the route preferred by TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL.

A protest sign sits in the proposed path of the Keystone XL Pipeline in Silver Creek, Neb.

Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill Reported In South Dakota

8:20pm November 16, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

The oil leak occurs just a few days before Nebraska state regulators will decide on the fate of TransCanada's controversial sister project, the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Russ Girling, president and CEO of TransCanada Corporation, addresses the company's annual meeting in 2015 in Calgary, Alberta.

As Trump Reboots Pipeline Expansion, An Unexpected Delay Emerges

9:05am January 28, 2017

by Marie Cusick

The projects will need to be approved through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but a resignation will leave that five-person panel with just two members — too few for a quorum.

President Trump points toward members of the media while seated at his desk on Air Force One Thursday.

Donald Trump's First Week As President: What's Reality In The Show

1:24pm January 27, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

He proposed actions on building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, moving toward dismantling Obamacare and even promising a voter fraud investigation. So what can he get done — and not?

President Trump, accompanied by Vice President Pence and staff, signed multiple documents regarding two major oil pipelines in the U.S.

Trump's Move On Keystone XL, Dakota Access Outrages Activists

10:54pm January 24, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

President Trump indicated that potential deals between the pipeline companies and the federal government would be renegotiated, with the goal of allowing construction to move forward.