Let's Say No To The Pipeline that Threatens U.S. Heartland

LARRY MAYER : THE BILLINGS GAZETTE/ASSOCIATED PRESS RIVER SPILL: The ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River near Billings, Mont., ruptured and dumped oil into the waterway in July. Photo: Larry Mayer / The Billings Gazette       

LUIS M. ALVAREZ : ASSOCIATED PRESS PIPELINE PROTEST: Demonstrators hold up signs in front of the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States and Canada. Photo: Luis Alvarez / FR596 AP

SUNDANCE, Utah - Few landscapes anywhere evoke the majesty of our country and the can-do spirit of our people like the sweeping great plains that form the nation's broad girth.

Watered by some of our most storied rivers - the Missouri, Yellowstone, Arkansas and the Platte - millions of acres of rich black soils yield a bounty of wheat, corn and soy that has made this great region the breadbasket of America and granary to the world.

And yet today, these lands and all they support are threatened by Big Oil and its plan to run a pipeline straight through the vast plains of the American heartland.  Read More

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