Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from ...

Vermont environmentalists are sounding the alarm: Groups such as 350.org, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council are warning that new Canadian regulatory filings ...

GU Fossil Free filed a proposal November 6 calling for divestment from tar sands oil companies. A proposal by student group GU Fossil Free calling on the university to avoid investments in tar sands ...

US Oil Sands has closed on a $7.5 million loan with its largest shareholder, allowing it to bring employees and contractors back on the job to get back to work on a Utah tar sands project north of ...

Congratulations to the people of TransCanada, Inc., whose long fight to connect the tar-sands-oil-pumping Keystone pipeline to the Gulf Coast of America finally reached fruition on Wednesday. Even ...

Environmental groups say any effort to ship tar sands oil through a northern Vermont pipeline should be subject to the state’s land use review. The pipeline company has said it has no current plans to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dole and Chiquita were greeted this morning with full-page ads in USA Today calling on the companies to reject extreme fossil fuels from ...

MONTPELIER (AP) -- Some residents of far northern Vermont and environmental groups asked an environmental commission on Tuesday to subject any effort to move tar sands oil through a pipeline between ...

TransCanada is a pipeline company based in Calgary, Alberta, about 400 miles south of the world’s third-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. There’s enough petroleum in Alberta’s ...