Politics

Pressure Mounts for Obama to Act on Keystone Pipeline

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The long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline got a major boost on Friday as a key State Department review raised no major environmental concerns, muting pipeline foes' main argument and raising pressure on the Obama administration to make a final decision. 

Republican supporters said the report should compel President Obama to swiftly green-light the Canada-to-Texas project.