Very soon, a critical decision on the Keystone XL pipeline (KXL) will be made, for better or worse. If approved, the pipeline would transport tar sands oil — one of the dirtiest sources of oil on the planet — almost 2000 miles through the United States. But together, we can prevent this pipeline from being built. Will you help fuel our resistance to this disastrous project — and support all Greenpeace does to protect the environment — by making your strongest donation today?

The main component of tar sands, bitumen, is a heavy, tar-like, oil that is so dense it sinks in water. That makes it exceptionally difficult to clean up — much more difficult than conventional oil. The process of extracting tar sands from the ground and converting it into fuel involves strip mining giant swaths of land while creating loads of toxic waste and air and water pollution. Tar sands extraction also creates three times more global warming pollution than conventional crude oil. Tar sands oil needs to stay right where it is: in the ground.

If approved, the 2,000-mile-long KXL pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Canada down through the U.S. across to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, putting all of the communities along its path at risk. The KXL pipeline was given the green light by Trump a few months ago, ignoring the objections of sovereign Indigenous nations, private landowners, and citizen groups that oppose it. But the project still has a lot of hurdles to overcome, including a battleground in Nebraska, where TransCanada — the corporation leading the project — needs approval for the pipeline’s route from the state’s Public Service Commission.

We are fighting this battle with a full-scale resistance on all fronts:

• On Sunday August 6, we will stand with indigenous people and supporters, climate activists, pipeline fighters, and water protectors in Lincoln, Nebraska at the March to Give Keystone XL the Boot.
• Next week, we will be joining our allies at a week-long public hearing being held by the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC), after which the PSC will be voting on whether to accept or reject TransCanada’s permit application.
• So far, more than 38,500 people have signed our petition urging JP Morgan Chase to pull all funding from KXL.

Let’s show Trump and polluters everywhere what this community is made of. Fuel the resistance against KXL, the oil and gas industry, and this administration’s disastrous environmental policies with your strongest donation today.

In Solidarity,

Diana Best
Senior Climate & Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace USA

P.S. Nebraska may well be our last stand in our battle to stop KXL. Please make an urgently needed gift now to support all of our work and to join us in this fight before it’s too late.