A House committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would authorize the Keystone XL pipeline, after lawmakers agreed to work together to ensure energy companies pay into a U.S. oil spill trust fund for all of the crude it carries.  More »

Critics of Keystone XL are ramping up their efforts against the pipeline by launching a new coalition, nationwide commercials and online ads focused on convincing influential Democratic voters and donors that the project is a bad idea.  More »

Videos and pictures of diluted bitumen spilled from an Exxon Mobil pipeline in Mayflower, Ark., are stoking new fears about Keystone XL, as the Obama administration nears a decision on authorizing the $7 billion project.  More »

Building brand new facilities in Canada to upgrade the tar-like bitumen harvested in Alberta is a costly investment that no longer pays off, especially since many refineries in Texas and Louisiana are already capable of processing the fossil fuel or can be more cheaply modified to do so, analysts say in a new report.  More »

The State Department late Friday released a fresh environmental assessment of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, concluding that the project is unlikely to dramatically boost demand for Canada’s oil sands or the amount of heavy crude oil refined in Gulf Coast refineries.  More »

A bipartisan group of 20 senators on Tuesday implored their former colleague John Kerry to ensure the State Department approves the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by April.  More »

The Obama administration is set to unveil a fresh environmental analysis of the Keystone XL pipeline, but project opponents say that study won’t be complete unless it considers climate change costs tied to the $7 billion project.  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 »

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 »

Two measures pertaining to a federal permit for the Keystone XL pipeline are among those that will get votes Thursday as amendments to sweeping Senate transportation legislation, under an agreement announced late Wednesday night. Also up for consideration is a GOP amendment that would expand offshore drilling to certain waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  More »