Many Americans don't realize that breaking a law can sometimes be legally, as well as morally, permissible.
The Canadian government announced plans Tuesday to buy a controversial pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta's tar sands to a port in Vancouver, the New York Times reports.
It's the end of the line for the Keystone pipeline (probably), but not for battles over tar sands and climate.
A new study finds that the Alberta government allows tar-sands companies to take dangerously high amounts of water from the Athabasca River.