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Will Obama OK the Keystone pipeline?
Posted by Chicago Tribune: Editorial on June 28th, 2013
Chicago Tribune: President Barack Obama's push this week to put a new emphasis on curbing greenhouse gas emissions had the feel of wishful thinking. He knows that Congress has little interest in the effort, so he plans to focus on what he can do by Environmental Protection Agency rule-making. The exercise of such regulatory power tends to be a slow grind through government bureaucracy, though, and he may not be able to get much of his agenda accomplished before his term ends.
One bit of his speech, though, held...
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Seven months later, no progress
Posted by Chicago Tribune: Editorial on December 27th, 2012
Chicago Tribune: It was a classic power play. In May, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, surprised representatives of the oil and gas industries with an amendment to a piece of drilling legislation that essentially killed the entire bill.
He wanted to get their attention. He did.
Seven months later, Illinois is no closer to realizing the potential for hydraulic fracturing that was addressed in the legislation. Also known as fracking, the controversial extraction technique involves injecting...