"But Earnest’s comments suggested that the administration — which has been under serious pressure for years from environmental advocates and major Democratic supporters to block the pipeline — has come to see the project as a litmus test on the United States’ commitment to tackling climate change.
Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse-gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first-ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks. And experts have debated to what extent Alberta’s oil might be shipped out by rail if the pipeline’s northern route falters. But at a time when the president has identified climate change as one of his top policy priorities, an application that started as a routine regulatory matter has taken on outsize political importance in the United States."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-will-decide-on-keystone-pipeline-before-he-leaves-office/2015/11/03/fb4904f4-7f10-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_keystone-440pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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