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Crude By Rail, Environmental Impacts, Tar sands crude

Sierra Club video: THAT’S the Tar-Sands

March 25, 2015 Roger Straw

Repost from the Sierra Club

Celebrities to President Obama: Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline

Celebrities from the U.S. and Canada have come together asking the president to do the obvious right thing: reject the dirty, dangerous tar sands pipeline once and for all. Add your voice now.

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