With its latest leak of nearly 600,000 gallons in northern Kansas, the sprawling Keystone pipeline system has now spilled more crude oil in the United States than any other pipeline since 2010.
“The latest spill is another tragic reminder of the costs of our reliance on fossil fuels,” Matt Casale, director of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund’s environment campaigns, said in a statement late Monday. “At every stage, from extraction, to transportation, to burning, fossil fuels put our environment and health at risk. Not only are they the driving force behind climate change, but when the pipelines spill — and they always spill — the damage is severe.
John Rumpler, senior director of the Clean Water for America Campaign at Environment America, agreed, adding that “once again, a massive spill has reminded us of a simple truth: oil pipelines put clean water at risk.” “Oil is toxic to humans and wildlife alike, and heavy crude, in particular, is exceedingly difficult to clean up once it has contaminated our rivers and streams,” Rumpler added. “Pipelines also often cross our nation’s wetlands — a risk that could be greatly magnified if the Supreme Court strips away their federal protections in. For the sake of clean water, it’s time to stop building new oil pipelines, and enforce more stringent safety standards on existing ones.
President Joe Biden won applause last year for killing a proposed expansion of the Keystone pipeline known as Keystone XL, but the administration has gone to bat for other major fossil fuel projects in court, including the
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