After Keystone oil spill, Kansas Democrats want to cancel tax exemptions when pipelines leak

The Keystone runs beneath a soybean field on the Pannbacker farm in Washington County. It’s visible on snowy days because the warm, underground pipe melts the snow. The diagonal line cutting across the field is the pipeline. Much of the oil released on Dec. 7 spilled onto native prairie that the Pannbackers use for grazing cattle. Some oil splattered into this field. Chris Pannbacker stands on a ridge overlooking the field last month. [Celia Llopis-Jepsen/Kansas News Service]
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen Kansas News Service After the Keystone spilled more than half a million gallons of crude oil onto native prairie and cropland and…

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