The Keystone XL pipeline defeat is one goal in a game, and we're way behind | Bill McKibben

We've shown that people aren't going to just give up and go away when the government ignores climate change, if we can show them how to have an effect

In the first two weeks of the Keystone fight, we couldn't get any press to pay attention to our work to defeat the environmental disaster we knew it would be if it were approved - none at all. Because back then in the summer of 2011 everyone knew that we couldn't win. No one ever beats big oil.

Now I'm sitting here fielding dozens and dozens of phone calls and emails from reporters, because we did: Barack Obama announced on Friday that he had denied TransCanada's proposal to build the Keystone XL pipeline.