For oil sands project, a step forward

The State Department’s draft environmental impact statement for a pipeline to carry crude oil from tar sand fields in Canada to refineries in Texas found “limited adverse environmental impacts.” Environmentalists object, saying the draft ignores that CO2 from tar sands exceeds regular oil by 20%.

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