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Heres What You Need to Know About President Obamas Decision to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-11-06 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateDesk: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Heres What You Need to Know About President Obamas Decision to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline Posted by Tim McDonnell on Friday, November 6, 2015 Watch Climate Desks explainer video. In the years biggest victory for environmentalists, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he will reject an application from Canadian company TransCanada to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, which would allow crude oil from Canadas oil sands to reach...
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Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-06 18:48:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US President Barack Obama rejects an application to build the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada because it will not help the economy, he says.
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The fight against Keystone XL changed climate movement. Heres how
2015-11-06 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.S. climate movement has gained a lot of clout in the four years since it made Keystone XL into a major target. In part, thats because the organizing against Keystone helped the movement develop a number of assets it previously lacked. Here are the six big ones: * Focus In the few years leading up to and following President Obamas election in 2008, the environmental movements climate focus was on passing a big bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Congressional Democrats wanted to make...
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Breaking: Keystone is dead. For now
2015-11-06 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Victory! After years of protests by environmentalists and concerned citizens, President Obama has announced he will reject TransCanadas application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL would have run 800,000 barrels a day of dirty and carbon-heavy crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast. Obamas decision is the first time a president has rejected a major infrastructure project because of climate change. The president cited several reasons for his decision: 1.) The pipeline...
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Breaking: Pres Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-11-06 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We just made history together. Four years to the day after we surrounded the White House, President Obama has rejected the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline! This is huge. A head of state has never rejected a major fossil fuel project because of its climate impacts before. The President`s decision sets the standard for what climate action looks like: standing up to the fossil fuel industry and keeping fossil fuels in the ground. BREAKING: President Obama has REJECTED...
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