The New Yorker just published a Ryan Lizza piece on Keystone, in which Lizza noted that: "the philosophical gulf between Obama and congressional Republicans is relatively narrow". '
See: "The Keystone XL Test: Can Obama make a deal? <http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/keystone-xl-test-can-obama-make-deal>" New Yorker, January 9 2015. Ryan Lizza is the New Yorker's Washington correspondent. He also contributes to CNN. Lizza pointed out that Obama's "veto statement <http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/114/saphr3r_20150107.pdf> was silent on the merits of the project itself". That is, the veto threat is stated to exist because the executive branch asserts that H.R.3 (the Keystone Pipeline Act) "conflicts with longstanding Executive branch procedures regarding the authority of the President", and hence, if Congress sends such a bill to the President to sign into law, "his senior advisers would recommend that he veto" it. Lizza claims to have inside information regarding Obama's view of Keystone: "In private, *Obama has been dismissive of environmentalist claims* that building Keystone XL would significantly affect climate change", and adds that "his State Department, with some caveats, came to the same conclusion in an environmental-impact statement <http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/finalseis/index.htm>". Hence, Lizza reasons, a deal may be possible. He advocates that Obama make one. He speculates: "What would the G.O.P. be willing to trade to get Keystone approved? A carbon tax?". My question: could the US environment movement give up its adamant opposition to Keystone if, in exchange, Republicans signed on to a federal carbon tax? On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 4:17:04 PM UTC-8, Alan Robock wrote: > > You all might also be interested in my blog on the subject in March last > year. It seems President Obama listened to me. > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-robock/president-obama-say-no-to_b_4913672.html > > Alan Robock > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
