Keystone XL

Should Companies Get Paid When Governments Phase Out Fossil Fuels? They Already Are

A common part of free trade agreements helps fossil fuel companies force big payouts from governments phasing out oil and gas projects. The United States narrowly avoided a $15 billion claim over the shuttered Keystone XL pipeline.

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Trump’s Environmental Impact Endures, at Home and Around the World

By Marianne Lavelle

A Shadowy Corner of International Law Is Threatening Climate Action, U.N. Expert Warns

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead, but TC Energy Still Owns Hundreds of Miles of Rights of Way

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Requiem for a Pipeline: Keystone XL Transformed the Environmental Movement and Shifted the Debate over Energy and Climate

By Marianne Lavelle

In Attacks on Environmental Advocates in Canada, a Disturbing Echo of Extremist Politics in the US

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Biden Cancels Keystone XL, Halts Drilling in Arctic Refuge on Day One, Signaling a Larger Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Biden Has Promised to Kill the Keystone XL Pipeline. Activists Hope He’ll Nix Dakota Access, Too

By Ilana Cohen

Too Much Sun Degrades Coatings That Keep Pipes From Corroding, Risking Leaks, Spills and Explosions

By Phil McKenna

Climate Activists See ‘New Era’ After Three Major Oil and Gas Pipeline Defeats

By Marianne Lavelle

Alberta’s $5.3 Billion Backing of Keystone XL Signals Vulnerability of Canadian Oil

By Nicholas Kusnetz

2020: A Year of Pipeline Court Fights, with One Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court

By Phil McKenna

Keystone Pipeline Spills 383,000 Gallons of Oil into North Dakota Wetlands

By Phil McKenna

Court Sides With Trump on Keystone XL Permit, but Don’t Expect Fast Progress

By Neela Banerjee

Midwest Flooding Exposes Another Oil Pipeline Risk — on Keystone XL’s Route

By Neela Banerjee

Is This the Beginning of the End for Canada’s Tar Sands?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline, Says Climate Impact Can't Be Ignored

By Phil McKenna

ACLU Fears Protest Crackdowns, Surveillance Already Being Planned for Keystone XL

By Nicholas Kusnetz

How Energy Companies and Their Allies Are Turning the Law Against Protesters

By Nicholas Kusnetz