Obama under pressure after Nebraska governor signs off on Keystone XL

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/22/obama-pressure-nebraska-keystonexl-pipeline

Barack Obama's powerful call for climate action faced an immediate test on Tuesday, with the president forced into a decision on one of the most contentious items on his agenda: the Keystone XL pipeline.

A day after Obama made a strong commitment to climate in his inaugural address, the governor of Nebraska signed off on the pipeline, leaving it up to the White House to decide on the fate of the project.

"Construction and operation of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline … would have minimal environmental impacts in Nebraska," Dave Heineman, the governor of Nebraska, wrote in a letter to the White House.

The approval now leaves the fate of a project seen as a litmus test of the administration's environmental credentials entirely in Obama's hands.

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1. Funny how a republiCON governor

whose allegiance is to anything except the good of the masses, could put President O in a bind to do what he knows is not the right thing to do. None of that tar sand oil will end up in any of our gas tanks. I suspect a lot of it will end up in our plastic shit from china though