The facts are clear: pipeline infrastructure is the safest, most affordable, most efficient, and the most environmentally friendly means of transporting the resources we need.

FORBES: Pipeline Infrastructure: Rhetoric v. Reality

Plus, the market will have to clear out gunk in the IPO pipeline.

FORBES: Digital Rules

Through the monthly workshops the Pipeline Fellowship holds, three things about social enterprises have become clear to Nothmann that go beyond the social mission they are trying to tackle.

FORBES: Changing the Ratio: Female Angel Investors

Although the most prevalent environmental debate centered on potential pipeline leaks that might endanger the sensitive Ogallala aquifer area in Nebraska and other states along the route, it is clear that a primary opposition goal for many is not to simply to reroute the pipeline, but rather to discourage and handicap oil use altogether.

FORBES: Obama's Keystone Rejection May Provide A Buffett Bonanza

To get the gas to market, hundreds of miles of pipeline are being laid along clear-cut forest "tunnels" sometimes dozens of yards wide.

NPR: Northeast Drilling Boom Threatens Forest Wildlife