Why the Keystone Victory Matters

Don’t be fooled by the nay-sayers at the Council on Foreign Relations and even among some environmentalists: the Obama administration’s backtracking on the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada is a major victory against climate change. And HOW it was won is as important as WHAT was won, as I explain in this week’s lead editorial in The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/164658/keystone-victory/.

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Called "one of America’s finest reporters" by Barbara Ehrenreich, Mark Hertsgaard is the author of six books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey and On Bended Knee. He has covered climate change, politics and the media for leading media outlets around the world, including Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time, The New Yorker, NPR, L’espresso, Die Zeit and Le Monde Diplomatique.

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