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With Keystone rebuff, Obama aims for more leverage and credibility in global climate talks
2015-11-07 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord. Rejecting Keystone, the proposed 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., was the latest in a long and growing list of steps Obama has taken...
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