Democrats Push State Department For New Keystone Climate Review

House Democrats are urging the State Department to undertake a new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis of the climate change impacts from the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project, the latest bid by the pipeline's opponents to stall the project over environmental concerns. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), ranking member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, sent an Aug. 8 letter to the State Department citing insufficient treatment of climate change in a prior NEPA study. He also says...