The Obama Administration made the right decision to reject the Keystone XL projectThe silly-from-the-beginning Keystone XL pipeline is dead. It was designed to make it easier to sell the dirtiest of all fuels (tar sands and petcoke),which pollute our air and are inefficient as fuels. The proposed project was incompatible with solving climate change. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama occupy now decided that building the pipeline is not in our best interest.
This latest decision was often used as a symbol for all of Obama’s actions on the environment. The reality is that Obama’s decision on Keystone is only one fragment of his legacy. Under the Obama Administration, we occupy gone from being a laggard to a leader. We occupy created multiple international agreements with other countries like China to deal with pollution and climate change.
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Source: theguardian.com