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Senate panel approves Keystone bill despite veto threat

2015-01-08 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Republicans pushed veto-threatened legislation to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline through a Senate committee Thursday, but Democrats blocked plans for an immediate debate in the full Senate. The Energy and Natural Resources committee moved the bill closer to the floor on a 13-9 vote. Sen Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of six Democrats sponsoring the bill, was the only committee Democrat to support it. The House will vote Friday on its version of the bill and is expected to pass the measure...

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Obama's Keystone veto threat proof that climate activism works

2015-01-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: When the news arrived from the White House on Tuesday that Barack Obama would veto the GOPs Keystone pipeline bill or at least that the president would not sign this bill as is I thought back to a poll that the National Journal conducted of its energy insiders in the fall of 2011, just when then issue was heating up. Nearly 92% of them thought Obamas administration would approve the pipeline, and almost 71% said it would happen by the end of that year. Keystones not dead yet feckless...

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White House issues veto threat over Keystone pipeline bill

2015-01-06 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Fox: The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto fresh legislation approving the controversial Keystone pipeline, setting up a likely showdown between President Obama and the new GOP-controlled Congress over one of Republicans' top agenda items. "If this bill passes this Congress, the president wouldn't sign it," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday, stressing that the president wants to wait for a State Department review process to finish. Republicans, with several Democratic...

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Obama hits Keystone again but declines to threaten veto

2014-12-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Politico: President Barack Obama poured cold water once again on the alleged economic benefits of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday -- a theme he has sounded frequently in the past few months, increasing speculation that he will eventually kill the project. Obama said at his year-end news conference that the Alberta-to-Texas project would have "very little' effect on gasoline prices and do little to improve the economy. He acknowledged that building the pipeline would create a "couple thousand' temporary...

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