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Obama to Nix Keystone Pipeline Today

January 18th, 2012 | by Susan Kraemer

In a huge win for congressional Democrats and green groups who oppose it, the Obama administration is expected to announce today that it has killed the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed use of US lands to allow dirty tar sands crude oil to be sent across US soil to the Gulf Coast for processing into usable oil for shipment to world markets

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Who Controls the Media? Solyndra vs Tar Sands Corruption Coverage

October 8th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

Media Matters does a wonderful job of tracking what the media is talking about (or not). It recently showed the whoppingly warped media coverage of Solyndra compared to government corruption related to the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and a shocking military contracting waste and fraud report. Here are a few of their graphs on these topics