As the State Department readies its final environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline, foes of the project are pressuring the Obama administration to pay attention to the challenge of mopping up spills of the heavy crude set to flow through it, reports Hearst Newspapers’ Jennifer A. Dlouhy.
When the State Department issued its draft of the analysis in March, it largely ignored the issue, prompting a rebuke from conservationists as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, which has overseen the slow cleanup of oil-sands crude dumped into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River in July 2010, notes Hearst Newspapers.
