Grist: 1) President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline on Nov. 6.
Obama positioned America as a global leader on climate change and said approving the project would undercut that leadership: "If we`re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we`re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them." This is the real decision weve all been waiting for. (You might have heard that Obama vetoed the...