CHICAGO — Nebraska's governor on Tuesday welcomed a controversial US-Canada pipeline now that it will be rerouted away from the state's sensitive wetlands, but environmentalists vowed to keep up the fight.
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers pressed President Barack Obama on Wednesday to green-light the massive US-Canada "Keystone" pipeline that has drawn heavy fire from environmentalists, saying the project will create jobs.
Thousands of protesters rallied outside the White House on Sunday to press US President Barack Obama to scrap plans for a multi-billion-dollar oil pipeline stretching from Canada to Texas.
