Landowner protests construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. A recent report in Nebraska has done little to quell concerns that a spill on the northern leg of the Keystone ...

In the debate over TransCanada's controversial Canada-to-Texas oil pipe, the Ogallala aquifer and the Nebraska sandhills have emerged as flashpoints Sign up here. The Canadian company TransCanada ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Nebraska – Though it looks like nothing more than a deep trench cutting across corn stubble and dark winter soil, the big water pipeline that construction workers are about to complete ...

As Nebraska’s Public Service Commission launches into a formal hearing this week to determine the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska and, effectively, its ability to proceed at all, the ...

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, a librarian at Texas Tech University. This week’s essay, by Paul Carlson, emeritus professor of history at Tech, looks at the ...

TransCanada Corp. (TSE:TRP), the company behind the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline project, has reached a deal with the state of Nebraska to reroute the proposed pipeline around an environmentally ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater—the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation—can threaten food production amid drought and ...

Record snowfall and rainfall this year, with tropical storm Hilary providing the latest blast, have brought major challenges to California but also an important opportunity for the managed recharge of ...

The Canadian company TransCanada wants to build a 1,702-mile pipeline that will pass through Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer as it transports heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada to ...