February 5, 2015
The EPA on Keystone XL: Ideology Trumps Analysis
The State Department Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline, published a year ago, concluded, reasonably, that the pipeline would have virtually no impact on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or climate effects even under the most extreme assumptions. After all, the pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels per day of heavy oil-sands crude from…