Obama said approving project would undercut global leadership as climate change is a diplomatic vital that overrides traditionally domestic interestsThe symbolism was everything. Standing before a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt,the conservationist president who 104 years ago busted the Standard Oil monopoly, Barack Obama made his own tilt at an environmental legacy.
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Source: theguardian.com