Wall Street Journal: When President Barack Obama hired John Podesta, an outspoken environmentalist who opposes the Keystone XL pipeline, as his special adviser late last year, many environmentalists anticipated that they were getting a strong ally in the West Wing.
Maybe so. But on Wednesday, Mr. Podesta showed that he's not afraid to push back at environmental groups when he feels they're going too far.
"If you oppose all fossil fuels and you want to turn fossil fuels off tomorrow, that's a completely impractical...