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Print this article It felt like a gut punch. Thats how South Dakota small business owner Laurie Cox described how she felt when news broke that Canadian developer TC Energy officially pulled the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline. The monumental decision to walk away from the $8 billion project was confirmed Wednesday and came at a devastating cost to communities that pinned their hopes and investments on the success of the massive cross-border venture. The decision to call it quits left people ...

While the highlight of President Joe Biden's week may have been driving an electric Ford F-150 on the track in Michigan, he also had to contend with continued strife in Israel and Gaza, helping to negotiate a precarious ceasefire. Elsewhere, in the United Kingdom, the Royal Family dealt with the fallout from a damning report about the BBC's conduct regarding a 1995 interview with Princess Diana. Prince Harry meanwhile, launched his docuseries,...

Laurie Cox couldnt believe her ears when she heard Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently admit that a pipeline was the best way to transport oil across the country.

Environmentalists may have cheered when President Biden pulled the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline, but his decision is sparking concerns of a greater calamity down the tracks as the

Nate Jackson Now that the second Democrat impeachment charade has concluded with another acquittal for Donald Trump, how will Dems perpetuate the blame and continue using the Capitol riot to inflict maximum damage on Trump and all Republicans? By announcing “an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission” ostensibly to investigate the Capitol riot. What could go wrong? After commissioning retired Army General Russel Honoré to investigate security failures, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...

That Joe Biden would sign an executive order revoking the permit for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office tells us a lot about his disregard for flyover country and the folks who live there. No discussion, no deliberation, and not even a pretense of living up to the promise he made in his inaugural speech to “work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as those who did.” But that’s Joe Biden. Promises made, promises broken. As we noted two w...

Print this article South Dakotans began preparing for the worst when President Biden headed to the White House after his inauguration. They knew what one of his first executive orders would be: pulling the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline, which had brought tens of thousands of jobs to the state during the Trump administration. "I had a real gut-sinking feeling and was watching little snips of the news and Facebook to see what was going to happen after the inauguration," Laurie Cox told the ...

Print this article In one of his first acts as commander in chief, President Biden stopped construction of the $8 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline. In the fourth part of this series, "Pipe Dreams Lost," the Washington Examiner reports on how South Dakotans are refusing to give up the fight, appealing to their local lawmakers and even Biden himself. President Biden might have pulled the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline on his first full day in office, but pipeline workers, residents, and busin...