As the country decides whether or not to move forward with the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, America Abroad hosts a special binational Town Hall on the topic to hear perspectives from all sides of the issue.
The US State Department recently released an environmental impact statement for the controversial pipeline that downplays its climate risks and other environmental effects. Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International is a critic.
Anchor Aaron Schachter talks with The World's environment editor Peter Thomson about an oil spill that may have big consequences for a plan to pump oil from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean, and play into the fight over the Keystone oil pipeline in the US.
Cushing, Oklahoma, is called the pipeline crossroads of the world. It's the world's largest oil storage hub. President Obama announced a plan to fast track the southern leg of the Keystone pipeline to connect oil stores in Oaklahoma to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
A Kansas writer on America’s giant, underappreciated and overexploited groundwater formation.
The Obama administration decides against building the controversial Keystone pipeline extension.