“I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe is the distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change”.
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Clinton, who reviewed the Keystone pipeline application when she was Obama’s secretary of state, has been under pressure from voters and donors to stop dodging questions about the project. “He put ideology ahead of the well-being of the people and the families in this state”, she said in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The former Secretary of State made it clear Tuesday that she was only speaking out now because she too had become frustrated by the pace of the administration’s approval process.
Asked how his campaign can recover, the retired neurosurgeon replied: “The only way we fix that is fix the PC culture in our country, ” referring to political correctness. “It’s September”, the aide said.
If we’re to take Sanders at his word, which is that his popularity has more to do with the issues than with his personal appeal, then this is a win. Clinton said during the Tuesday campaign event that she can’t wait any longer.
Clinton’s opposition was not a foregone conclusion. “And I can tell you, that is not the way a market is supposed to work”.
Several Republicans joined in, including Ohio Governor John Kasich, who said “America needs the Keystone pipeline and the jobs that come with it”.
Clinton has repeatedly been asked about Keystone on the campaign trail but has never answered directly. As a candidate, however, she has dodged the question of KXL, a longstanding litmus test for many environmental advocates.
But she has expressed her impatience in recent weeks over the pipeline issue. The bottom line: It matters to Clinton only in the Democratic primary, and she can only benefit from siding with the environmental movement.
Clinton had for months declined to comment on the pipeline, which would send Canadian crude oil to USA refineries.
“The American people want a President who will lead – not just someone who will tell them what they want to hear”. “It’s been a good evolution, always in the right direction”, he said.
Clinton’s discussion on climate change ironically came after she started the forum 40 minutes late, which left the participants waiting in the small Moulten Elementary School gym sweating with no air conditioning and looking for a way to cool off.
Clinton’s Democratic presidential opponents have opposed the deal. The key is whether she continues to focus on policies that discourage the production of fossil fuels, like mining and drilling on public lands.
A University of Minnesota pharmaceutical economics professor says Hillary Clinton’s new plan to curb the cost of prescription drugs is not enough to prevent price gouging.
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“Time to invest in a clean energy future – not build a pipeline to carry our continent’s dirtiest fuel across the USA “, she wrote. “#KeystoneXL”, he tweeted. The fact this flies in the face of logic, physics, and science matters not a whit to enviros or to a cynical Hillary Clinton desperate for progressive votes. Sanders has long opposed Keystone, and as the White House decision has lingered, Clinton was increasingly painted into a corner.
