Keystone XL pipeline rejection signals US taking lead on climate change fight
by Karl Mathiesen in New York from on (#SW8N)
Obama said approving project would undercut global leadership as climate change is a diplomatic imperative that overrides traditionally domestic interests
The 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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