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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
TransCanada, owners of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, promised Nebraska state legislators this week to take additional steps to protect environmental safety if the project is approved by the federal government.
A coalition of groups that oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline is calling on President Obama to remove the State Department from the process of deciding whether to approve the project.
The environmental group Friends of the Earth released more emails between the U.S. State Department and TransCanada that they say shows a “smoking gun” proving an unethical relationship between the two.
Friends of the Earth is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate possible legal violations of TransCanada lobbyist Paul Elliott. The allegations are based on a series of email messages between Elliott and the State Department.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is has used Senate rules to place a personal hold on a pipeline safety bill that has previously drawn bipartisan support.
Seven members of the Democratic National Committee have joined with environmental activists, celebrities and a group of Nobel Peace Prize winners in calling on President Obama to deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
President Obama spent Labor Day speaking to several thousand union workers at the General Motors’ headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, calling for an infrastructure project to create more jobs.
Dave Heineman, Nebraska’s Republican governor, has penned a letter to federal authorities, urging them to rethink the current proposed route of an oil pipeline over a key water source for his state’s agriculture industry.
Protests against the Keystone XL pipeline began this weekend in the nation’s capitol as activists and celebrities staged sit-ins at the White House, resulting in more than 100 being arrested.
A group of 20 prominent scientists have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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