Contact your legislators at the U.S. Capitol Zip codes: House 20515, Senate 20510 Capitol operator: (202) 224-3121 HOUSE Ben Ray Luján (D) Steve Pearce (R) Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) KEYSTONE PIPELINE, CLIMATE CHANGE: Voting 270 for and 152 against, the House on Feb. 11 sent the White House a bill (S 1) giving final federal approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline while declaring “climate change is real and not a hoax.” The bill approves a pipeline leg reaching more than 900 miles from the Canadian border to Steele City, Neb. This would be the final link in a nearly 4,000-mile Keystone network for shipping tar- sands crude from Hardisty, Alberta, to refineries in Texas and the Midwest and ports on the Texas Gulf Coast. Usurping authority over the international project from the Department of State and White House, the bill “deems” that environmental and safety hurdles have been cleared and that U.S.
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