Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. About 4,000 demonstrators in San Francisco yesterday protested the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, the Chron reports. The large demonstration coincided with protests throughout the country, including one in Washington DC, which drew tens of thousands of demonstrators. Environmentalists oppose the construction of the Keystone XL because it promises to expand the extraction of tar sands oil, which is the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel in the world and a major threat to climate change.
