The State Department’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline could be delayed again, this time into 2014. The State Department’s internal watchdog says it needs until January to complete a conflict of interest review of a contractor involved in assessing Keystone’s environmental impact. The firm Environmental Resources Management failed to disclose financial ties to the tar sands industry in Canada for its contract with the State Department. Environmentalists have blasted the State Department report’s conclusion that completing the pipeline’s northern leg would not worsen climate change nor impact whether tar sands oil is extracted. The Obama administration had initially put off a decision until after last year’s elections.