The Keystone XL Pipeline, designed to carry crude oil from Canada into the U.S. for refinement, cleared two hurdles today, one legislative and one judicial, reports the Washington Times.
- With the support of 28 Democrats, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 266-153 to approve construction of the project long stalled by the Obama Administration. The U.S. Senate, now under Republican control, is working a companion bill through its own chamber and is expected to take an early test-vote early next week.
- Hours earlier, the Supreme Court of Nebraska upheld the project's proposed route through Nebraska, overturning a lower court earlier decision invalidating the pipeline's path. In its ruling, the high court determined that the landowners who challenged Keystone's route did not have legal standing to do so.
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