Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

Siding with NRDC and our partners, a federal court agreed that the Nationwide Permit 12 allows dangerous pipeline projects to skirt environmental laws.

Despite efforts to prop up the dirty tar sands pipeline with subsidies, our court battle to stop the project is far from over.

But the administration has yet to release the more thorough (and court-ordered) environmental review for the project.

A federal court in Montana has revoked a key permit and TC Energy’s approvals to construct Keystone XL through approximately 700 water crossings in the United States along the tar sands pipeline’s route, upending the company's plans to construct the pipeline and adding to the project's significant legal hurdles.

While Nebraska’s Supreme Court removes one obstacle to Keystone XL, many remain.

NRDC challenged the U.S Department of State's decision to issue a U.S.–Canada cross-border permit for the pipeline without doing a complete, current review of its threats to climate, endangered species, and water supplies for communities along the route.

Historic flooding recently inundated parts of the Cornhusker State where the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would pass through. Here’s why that’s a disaster in the making.

Keystone XL faces another setback and NRDC and it's partners score another legal victory against this controversial tar sands project.

For more than a decade, NRDC has worked with indigenous communities in Alberta, U.S.-based grassroots groups, and intergovernmental bodies to halt the expansion of dirty tar sands oil.

In a win for the climate, environment, and local communities, the dirty tar sands pipeline now faces even more delays and uncertainty.

The future of the much-maligned pipeline is now even more uncertain.

Nebraska's Public Service Commission (PSC) handed TransCanada a pyrrhic victory by approving a new route for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through the state.

How a single pipeline project became the epicenter of an enormous environmental battle

Meet some of the people who are striving to stop TransCanada’s dirty tar sands oil pipeline once and for all.

At every turn, the Tar Sands Invasion would put people and the environment in harm's way.

The founder of Bold Nebraska has led the Cornhusker State’s years-long rallying cry against TransCanada’s tar sands pipeline.

Yes, Trump has green-lighted the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But Nebraska’s got a slew of public hearings on the calendar, and legal challenges loom large.