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Prodded by Climate Campaigners and Aided by Cheap Oil, Obama Kills Keystone
2015-11-06 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Congratulations are due to Bill McKibben, Jim Hansen and the tens of thousands of other climate campaigners who turned an obscure cross-border pipeline proposal into an effective national political campaign. After years of deliberations, President Obama today said the Keystone XL project was not in the national interest: In 2011, I split with McKibben and others as they were being arrested at the White House. I argued that the pipeline issue was a distraction from the core issues involving our...
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