Political Wrangling Heats Up Over Keystone Pipeline

Top officials with the U.S. oil industry are urging Congress and the president to approve a controversial oil pipeline that would bring crude from Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast.  The industry says the Keystone XL Pipeline would create thousands of jobs.  Environmentalists say this project would create more pollution than usual and is not needed at a time of oil abundance.  The new business-friendly Republican majority in the Senate favors the project, but...

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