By Juliet Eilperin
The most interesting aspect of this week’s House vote in favor of constructing the Keystone XL pipeline was not the fact that it passed—which was widely expected—but the fact that it got 20 fewer votes than a similar proposal received one year ago.
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A wide array of groups—from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the American Iron and Steel Institute—back the project as a way to create short-term construction jobs and a steady supply of oil. Environmentalists and some landowners along the route, however, argue the pipeline could lead to damaging spills and will accelerate climate change by easing the extraction of fossil fuels.
Read more at the Washington Post.