It's been over a week since TC Energy announced its Keystone pipeline leaked into Mill Creek in Washington County, Kan. Environmental advocates say this is just the beginning to a cleanup that will likely take years.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas shut down a major pipeline that carries oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, briefly causing oil prices to rise Thursday. Canada-based TC Energy said it shut down its Keystone system Wednesday night following a drop in pipeline pressure.
In Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, Lucas Bessire returns to his his family's farm in southwest Kansas to explore how people feel about the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer, which stretches beneath parts of eight states.
Efforts to propel Kansas' renewable energy future are at a standstill, mired in legislative stalemate. At its center is a former TV weather personality who is using his chairmanship of a key committee to promote questionable claims about green energy and to spotlight complaints from opponents of wind and solar energy projects.
Racial and ethnic minority communities face the most harm from climate change. Those communities are the least likely to be able to prepare for and recover from threats such as heat waves, poor air quality and flooding.
