Last week, it was my honor to fly to Los Angeles to sit down for an interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley for his nationwide late night show, to discuss my new book Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America. It was a fast-moving conversation that touched a lot of ground, including my early cases over radioactive oil pollution, the limitless lobbying clout of Big Oil, and the failure to carry out meaningful reforms in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe five years ago. Our most lively exchange involved the fate of the much debated Keystone XL pipeline proposal. Here's an excerpt of what I told him: I sincerely hope that the president does what he said he was going to do and vetoes the bill. A lot of people don’t really understand this Keystone thing just boils down, to me, an outrageous abuse of a law that was passed to produce oil and gas in the United States after World War II and to build our energy infrastructure. Here we have a foreign corporation that is bring given ...
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