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How Obama Could Nix the Keystone Pipeline (And Why He Won’t)
Posted by Atlantic Wire: David Wagner on January 24th, 2013
Atlantic Wire: President Obama will be confronted with the first big policy decision of his second term where environmentalists and business interests are at odds: the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Despite promising to act on climate change in his inaugural speech, all signs point to the controversial project going forward.
On Wednesday, a majority of Senators (44 Republicans and nine Democrats) sent a letter to President Obama urging him to move forward on Keystone XL, a massive pipeline that would carry oil from...
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Times Closes Environment Desk on Same Day ‘Extreme Weather’ Hits Front Page
Posted by Atlantic Wire: David Wagner on January 11th, 2013
Atlantic Wire: Talk about mixed signals. On the very morning The New York Times signaled its plans to reassign its nine environment desk journalists to other sections, the paper ran a chilling photo of "extreme weather" above the fold on A1.
No one got fired, but Times managing editor Dean Baquet tells InsideClimate New's Katherine Bagley that the dedicated environment desk will fold over the next few weeks. "We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage," Baquet assures, saying that environment stories...