The heads of more than a dozen major environmental, health and other non-profit groups called on President Barack Obama Tuesday to strip the State Department of its authority to permit the controversial oil pipeline project known as Keystone XL. In a letter addressed to the president, they argued that recently released emails suggest the agency has had a clear bias toward the oil industry in weighing the virtues of the proposed project, which would deliver crude oil harvested from Canada to refineries in Texas. BLOG POSTS
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