FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2018 Contact: Dustin Ogdin, Northern Plains Communications Director, (406) 248-1154 Hannah Hostetter, Northern Plains Lead Organizer, (406) 600-8317 Mark Hefflinger, Bold Alliance, mark@boldalliance.org Landowners and Keystone XL Opponents to Rally in Montana on Eve of Hearing to Challenge Trump Administration Rubber-stamp of Pipeline Permit Rally at Elks Riverside Park and […]

For Immediate Release: March 24, 2017 Legal Experts, Landowners, Tribal Organizations and Green Groups Vow To Stop KXL Again A Recording of Today’s Call Is Available Here Washington, DC – On the heels of the Trump administration’s ill-advised signing of the federal permit on Keystone XL Pipeline, legal minds, landowners and environmental advocates outlined the […]

The Washington Post reports that President Trump said in a speech at a fundraiser in Washington on Tuesday that he ordered National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs, to tell TransCanada drop its $15 billion claim against the U.S. government under NAFTA for losses suffered from its rejected Keystone XL […]

On Jan. 24, President Trump took action to undo President Obama’s rejection of Keystone XL, opening the door for TransCanada to reapply to build the risky tarsands export pipeline that would pass through the fragile Sandhills and Ogallala aquifer in Nebraska. [1] But Trump’s action is far from a “green-light” to begin construction on Keystone […]

Bold Alliance president Jane Kleeb appeared on Canadian network CBC’s “Power & Politics” program on Jan. 24 to discuss President Trump’s action aimed at fast-tracking the Keystone XL pipeline. WATCH: Jane Kleeb on the 35 permanent jobs that would be created from Keystone XL, and the varied risks of transporting oil by pipeline vs. rail. […]

Bold Alliance president Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday, Jan. 24 to discuss President Trump’s signing of Executive Orders that aim to fast-track completion of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Read Bold Nebraska’s statement on Keystone XL here. Read Bold Iowa’s statement on Dakota Access here. WATCH: Bold’s Jane Kleeb discusses Keystone […]

The President can do two things to remove certain obstacles to the permitting of the the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, if TransCanada reapplies. First, he can rescind Executive Order 11423 governing transboundary pipelines, eliminating the need for a National Interest Determination and review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Even without that step, second […]

Today, Bold Alliance joined 173 environmental and citizens’ groups in a joint letter urging all U.S. Senators to reject Scott Pruitt’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. (View the full letter below.) Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General, has actively worked against the mission of the EPA he has been nominated to lead — […]

Bold Alliance, including president and Bold Nebraska founder Jane Kleeb, and Bold Iowa director Ed Fallon, along with landowners whose property was taken against their will via eminent domain for private gain, greeted GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign appearance in Atlanta. “Donald Trump says he loves eminent domain, that may come as […]