Groups Call on Inspector General to Investigate State Department’s Keystone XL Review

Letter identifies specific regulations State Department officials appear to have violated

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2011.  National environmental groups today called on the State Department’s inspector general to investigate wrongdoing by department officials in its review of the proposed Keystone XLtar sands oil pipeline.

The groups sent Deputy State Department Inspector General Harold W. Geisel a letter identifying several U.S. Office of Government Ethics regulations that State Department officials appear to have violated.

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