FROM BILL MCKIBBEN! Friends, When the news arrived from the White House yesterday that Barack Obama would veto the proposed Keystone pipeline bill, I thought back to a poll that the National Journal conducted of its “energy insiders” in the fall of 2011, just when then issue was heating up. Nearly 92% of those insiders thought Obama’s administration would approve the pipeline, and almost 71% said it would happen by the end of that year. Keystone’s not dead yet -- feckless Democrats in the Congress could make some kind of deal, and the president could still yield down the road to the endlessly corrupt State Department bureaucracy that continues to push the pipeline -- but the Presidents veto threat shows what happens when people organize. By pledging to veto the Keystone XL bill, President Obama took an important step towards backing up his climate talk yesterday, and we should applaud that. He showed the kind of courage that will be needed to stop this pipeline and begin to turn the tide against the fossil fuel industry. If he can keep showing it, Keystone XL is on the way to the dustbin of history. Lets show him were ready to push for more: act.350.org/sign/reject-keystone-xl-now/
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:28:07 +0000
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