No reason to deny project, bipartisan majority says, but others in Congress press Obama to back up climate change commitmentBarack Obama faced intense pressure to break with his inauguration day promise on climate change on Thursday, after a bipartisan majority in the Senate urged approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.The letter from 53 senators said there was no reason for Obama to deny the pipeline – as campaigners are demanding – because the project had now undergone exhaustive environmental review.The letter, signed by Democrats as well as Republicans, underlined the high political cost to Obama of living up to his promise to act on climate change.Campaign groups have made the pipeline their signature issue, saying the project to pump crude from Alberta's tar sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf will unlock vast stores of carbon.
Obama Faces Keystone Dilemma After Senate Urges Pipeline Approval
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Thu, 01/24/2013 - 10:34am
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