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#NoKXL Best Hits: Six Reasons Keystone XL Must Not Be Built

As we await the photo-op of Keystone XL approval from the Trump Administration, here's a compilation of a few of our "best hits" for why Keystone XL must not be built.

Subsidy Spotlight: Paying the Price of Tar Sands Expansion

From tar sands refinery subsidies in Whiting, Indiana and cash-strapped Detroit to petcoke covering the neighborhoods of Southeast Chicago, this subsidy spotlight explores the human impact of government subsidies gone haywire.

Detroit’s petcoke pile helps a struggling coal plant stay in business…more to come?

The story of the Detroit petcoke pile should give the Obama administration some serious pause as they consider the Keystone XL decision.

Canadian MP Calls for Petcoke Inquest

A member of the Canadian Parliament has said he wants an investigation into a three-story mound of petcoke piling up near the Marathon refinery along the Detroit River.

Koch’ed up: Petcoke’s political pollution

If there's a statistical correlation between dirty oil and dirty politics, we have yet to quantify it – but here's another story for the pile of anecdotal evidence.