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Nebraska Supreme Court Clears Way For Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-01-09 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Nebraska's Supreme Court, in a split decision, cleared the the way for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline's route. Four of the seven judges ruled that landowners who challenged the state law giving Nebraska's governor authority to approve the pipeline's route have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the law. The same judges also found that a lower court correctly ruled the state law as unconstitutional. But Nebraska's Constitution requires a supermajority of five to strike down...
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