U.S. lawmakers have advanced a measure to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline which would bring carbon-intensive tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The newly Republican-led Senate Energy Committee approved the bill, which President Obama has vowed to veto. Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders denounced the measure.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “I am very worried about the United States Congress turning its back on science, turning its back on those people who tell us that we have got to cut carbon emissions rather than give a green light for the exploration and the production of some of the dirtiest oil on this planet. I think, frankly, that is crazy.”