"Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment...when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." -Barack Obama, June 3, 2008.
The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed 2,000 mile pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of dirty, Canadian tar-sand oil to the US. Allowing this pipeline to move forward will inhibit the advancement of clean energy, exacerbate climate change, and tie the United States to outdated fossil-fuels for generations.