On Keystone, Action Can Wait

Rich Lowry   "President Barack Obama has urged that we make this a “year of action,” and he is going to do his part by acting with vigor and dispatch to continue to study the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project.

"The State Department just acted with an 11-volume, 7,000-page environmental review that concludes, like the several reviews prior to this point, that the pipeline poses no environmental hazard. You’ve got to hand it to the State Department — when it is determined to act, it moves."
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"Of course, that’s the point. When there’s no legitimate reason to stop a project that well-funded left-wing donors and a mini-grassroots environmentalist army want stopped, the safest course is to make sure that it is always study-ready and never shovel-ready."