Oil Sands

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

Oil companies have replaced Indigenous people’s traditional lands with mines that cover an area bigger than New York City, stripping away boreal forest and wetlands and rerouting waterways.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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

By Nicholas Kusnetz

2016: Canada's Oil Sands Downturn Hints at Ominous Future

By Nicholas Kusnetz

2016: How Dakota Pipeline Protest Became a Native American Cry for Justice

By Phil McKenna

Obama's Climate Change Legacy: Triumphs, but Also Lost Opportunities

By Marianne Lavelle

With Oil Sands Ambitions on a Collision Course With Climate Change, Exxon Still Stepping on the Gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Neela Banerjee, and Lisa Song

It's Not Just Dakota Access. Many Other Fossil Fuel Projects Delayed or Canceled, Too

By Zahra Hirji

Can Trump Revive Keystone? Nebraskans Vow to Fight Anew

By Marianne Lavelle

Canada Approves Two Pipelines, Axes One, Calls it a Climate Victory

By Zahra Hirji and Lisa Song

Exxon’s Accountants Are Experts in Climate Risk. What Did They Tell Exxon?

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Class-Action Lawsuit Adds to ExxonMobil's Climate Change Woes

By David Hasemyer

Donald Trump and Climate Change: Top 10 Ways He Could Reverse Progress

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Exxon's Oil Sands Announcement May Mean Little for the Climate

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Minnesota Groups Challenge Enbridge's Plan to Quickly Rebuild Faulty Pipeline

By David Hasemyer

Judge Throws Out Rioting Charge Against Journalist Covering Dakota Access Protest

By Phil McKenna

Dakota Access Opponents Thinking Bigger, Aim to Halt Entire Pipeline

By Phil McKenna

Exxon's Big Bet on Oil Sands a Heavy Weight To Carry

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Joining Trend, NY Suspends Review of Oil Train Terminal Permit

By Zahra Hirji

Government Delays Pipeline Settlement Following Tribe Complaint

By David Hasemyer