President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Plan
There’s bound to be a few ‘splodey heads tonight over this as beholden to the oil lobbies as the GOP is.
Ending a process that has lingered for much of his time in the Oval Office, President Obama announced Friday that the U.S. has rejected TransCanada’s application for a permit to complete the Keystone XL pipeline.
The president said that “after extensive public outreach” and consultations, the State Department determined that the proposal “would not serve the national interests of the United States.” He added, “I agree with that decision.”
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