The DEC rightfully denied the permit request to build the Constitution Pipeline on Earth Day 2016. This effort is about more than defeating one pipeline—it is also about shifting the way we think about sustainability, energy, and our future.
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Despite the greenhouse gas emissions that the tar sands represent, Obama did not reject the pipeline because of environmentalist protests. Rather, the combination of increasing domestic oil production, low oil and gas prices, and high costs of tar sands extraction killed the pipeline.
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