Supporters of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline are now billing it as a top political issue for Hispanic voters — the latest bid to spur the administration’s approval of the project.  More »

The European Commission is set to delay voting on whether to label oil from oil sands as worse for climate change than other forms of crude, delivering a victory to Canada.  More »

Republicans will try again to pass a bill by Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., to let the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the U.S.-Canadian border. In making the announcement, Republicans cited Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ plan to expand a pipeline in Canada to the Pacific coast.  More »

Perhaps nobody in the U.S. House of Representatives has been more outspoken in his support of the Keystone XL pipeline than Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb. In an interview with Fuel Fix, Terry took time to discuss his ongoing plans for legislation to approve the pipeline, as well as his thoughts on Obama’s defense of the decision to reject the permit.  More »

President Obama on Thursday unveiled a new process for speeding up the approval of infrastructure projects, especially the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline’s southern leg. But Republicans dismissed Obama’s trip to Cushing as a political ploy meant to take credit for the only part of the pipeline he has no control over.  More »

A majority of Americans want the U.S. government to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, according to a new nationwide survey. The poll results come as President Barack Obama heads to Cushing, Okla., to tout plans to fast-track the southern leg of the controversial project.  More »

President Obama will say Thursday he is directing agencies to do what they can to speed up approval of any federal permits needed to construct the southern leg of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf Coast.  More »

The Institute for Energy Research filed a public records request for U.S. government documents pertaining to the Keystone XL pipeline in trying to assess their concerns that the Obama administration’s denial of a cross-border permit for the project stemmed from political motivations.  More »

The Senate for the second time in as many weeks turned back a Republican-led effort to add provisions approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline to an unrelated transportation bill.  More »

The Senate on Thursday rejected controversial Republican proposals to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, expand offshore drilling into new waters, and delay environmental regulations for industrial and commercial boilers.  More »

The House will probably take up the Senate’s transportation bill, Speaker John Boehner said Thursday, signaling his chamber’s own legislation that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline and expand oil-and-gas drilling to fund road projects might not have the needed support to pass.  More »

Republicans ripped into President Obama on Thursday in reaction to a media report that he personally lobbied senators to vote against a GOP measure that would approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline. But the White House said the president opposes ramming through a pipeline without a proper review, and Democrats came to Obama’s defense.  More »