Environmental security

After Keystone Rejection, Climate Politics Are Just Heating Up

In announcing his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, President Barack Obama noted that the project has been “too often used as a campaign cudgel.” But just because the Obama administration’s seven-year review of the pipeline proposal has come to an end doesn’t mean that’s going to change.

In fact, presidential candidates and advocacy groups didn’t even wait for Obama to speak before extolling or lambasting the proposed pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico. “It is insane for anyone to be supporting the excavation and transportation of some of the dirtiest fuel on earth,” 2016 Democratic contender Bernie Sanders said in a release.