{"id":265042,"date":"2013-06-25T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=265042"},"modified":"2013-06-26T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:53:10","slug":"obama-links-keystone-approval-to-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=265042","title":{"rendered":"Obama Links Keystone Approval to Carbon Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=265043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-265043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/thumb_barackobama-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_barackobama\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-265043\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP\/Staff) \u2013 President Barack Obama says that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada to Texas should only be approved if it doesn\u2019t worsen carbon pollution. Obama says allowing the oil pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so is in the nation\u2019s interest. He says that means determining that the pipeline does not contribute and \u201csignificantly exacerbate\u201d emissions. Obama was speaking at Georgetown University on measures he intends to take to confront climate change. Environmental activists have demanded that the administration not approve the pipeline. The Keystone XL would carry oil from Canadian tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through eastern Smith County and other parts of East Texas along the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP\/Staff) \u2013 President Barack Obama says that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada to Texas should only be approved if it doesn\u2019t worsen carbon pollution. Obama says allowing the oil pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so is in the nation\u2019s interest. He says that means determining that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=265042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Links Keystone Approval to Carbon Emissions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 11:47:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265253,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265042\/revisions\/265253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}