Internal State Department Emails Provide Evidence of Bias in Keystone XL Pipeline Review

Public interest groups call on Obama to heed credible independent experts’ analyses and reject dangerous tar sands oil pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—September 22, 2011.  Email correspondence between State Department employees and a TransCanada pipeline lobbyist who served as a top aide on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign provides evidence of bias in the review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.

The emails, released by Friends of the Earth after they were…