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Office of Inspector General to investigate tar sands pipeline deal

A protester outside the White House, demonstrating against the Tar Sands XL pipeline project on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. Photo: Flickr commons.

A letter from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) appears to have triggered what thousands of protesters could not: a serious re-examining of the deal to secure the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. “We are disturbed by reports, such as those in The New York Times on October…

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Obama’s former email fundraising author among those arrested at White House

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A senior writer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was arrested outside the White House on Monday after he joined a protest against a planned Canadian tar sands pipeline. Elijah Zarlin, who authored fundraising emails for Obama, was arrested along with more than 100 other protesters taking part in a…

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Top NASA climate scientist arrested at White House

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One of the nation’s foremost experts on climate change was arrested outside the White House on Monday morning after he joined a protest against a planned Canadian tar sands pipeline. Dr. James Hansen (pictured), who runs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested along with 139 other protesters taking…

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